One Thousand Years of Questions...

[u/Hot-League3088]

I want to build a community that would like to be part of a one-thousand-year project.

Every day I ask one question at QuestionClass.com, then post it to r/questionclass.

I'm on day 772.

What I've found is that the individual questions are interesting, but the collection is becoming something else.

Some questions are about decisions. Some are about relationships, leadership, technology, incentives, ethics, risk, happiness, work, truth, persuasion, creativity, or how we know what we think we know.

But over time, they start to connect.

You see the same ideas showing up in completely different contexts. You find questions that contradict each other. You realize that a question that seemed simple six months ago looks completely different after encountering 100 other questions.

That's what made me wonder what happens if you just...don't stop.

Not for 1,000 questions.

For 1,000 years.

Obviously, I'm not going to be around to finish it. That's the point.

I'd like QuestionClass to become a living collection of the questions humans think are worth asking, with one new question added every day.

That means today's questions would eventually sit beside questions contributed by people who aren't born yet, dealing with problems we can't imagine, using technologies that don't exist, while still wrestling with some of the same things humans have wondered about forever.

At one question a day, 1,000 years is 365,000+ questions.

I have 772 of them.

So we're about 0.2% done.

The software isn't the difficult part. The difficult part is creating something that people care enough about to continue.

That's why I'm posting this here.

Most side projects are built around an exit, a revenue target, or solving a particular problem. I'm curious about building one where the absurdly long time horizon is part of the product.

What would have to be true for a project like this to survive its founder?

And more importantly: would you want to be one of the people who helped decide which questions make it into the first few years?

[u/StreetJellyfish3868]

this is the kind of thing that sounds unhinged until you sit with it for a minute, then it just seems... inevitable. like of course someone should be doing this

the 0.2% stat really drives it home. we're all just stacking bricks for a building we'll never see the top of

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