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Posted by thinkingemote 20 hours ago

Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived(anyhumanever.com)
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asdf333 13 hours ago|
i love this. it really shows you someone else's perspective.

had you drawn a different lot in life things would be very different.

imo it is a good example of Rawl's veil of ignorance thought experiment.

How would you design the world if you will be randomly dropped into any position anywhere on earth.

well done.

gfiorav 19 hours ago||
Spot checked a life from 1990s in the Iberian peninsula and it cites the population at 72 million people. Off by quite a bit. Pretty cool regardless!
spongebobism 15 hours ago||
> You have drawn a boy, born in the Russian Plain in 3843 BCE.

He probably spoke something close to proto-Indo-European

jrootabega 13 hours ago||
I feel sorry for the person who draws their exact real-life stats, but dying this year.
Buttons840 11 hours ago||
I drew a man who lived to 80 in 47,000 BCE. Beat that!
guybedo 19 hours ago||
we are probably living inside a more advanced version of this game right now.

Somebody, somewhere, somewhen rolled the dice and here we are.

aetherspawn 12 hours ago||
> He was born, lost his father at 5, and died at 7 of malnutrition.

Yikes

BobbyTables2 12 hours ago||
I died of dysentery shortly after being born.

Makes Oregon Trail seem easy…

aronowb14 14 hours ago||
I drew a woman from 500 BCE in the ganges... but lived to 75?
iJohnDoe 17 hours ago|
Most likely died of smallpox...

Great, let's bring back smallpox and measles because the US elected officials are too dumb or genuinely want to destroy the world.

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