There were many commenters who did not bother to look up what the B-theory of Time is:
B-theorists maintain that the fact that we know much less about the future simply reflects an epistemological difference between the future and the past: the future is no less real than the past; we just know less about it. -- Wikipedia
I think it is good to learn this phrase, because many LWers have strong opinions about this idea without knowing its proper name in philosophy. Personally, I very strongly feel that B-theory is a legitimate and extremely fruitful way of looking at the world. I don’t really care whether it is the only proper way of looking at it.
The time-symmetry of (most?) fundamental (non-statistical) laws of nature seems to (weakly) encourage B-theory, as does (much more strongly) the relativity of simultaneity to the observer’s velocity in special relativity. I’m not sure how A-theory is even tenable after Einstein.
There were many commenters who did not bother to look up what the B-theory of Time is:
I think it is good to learn this phrase, because many LWers have strong opinions about this idea without knowing its proper name in philosophy. Personally, I very strongly feel that B-theory is a legitimate and extremely fruitful way of looking at the world. I don’t really care whether it is the only proper way of looking at it.
The time-symmetry of (most?) fundamental (non-statistical) laws of nature seems to (weakly) encourage B-theory, as does (much more strongly) the relativity of simultaneity to the observer’s velocity in special relativity. I’m not sure how A-theory is even tenable after Einstein.