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Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived

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Re: Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived

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Post by pteraspidomorph »

jorisboris wrote: post #100

My daughter is four. I drew a boy who lived 11000 years ago in Mexico. His longest travel was a half day walk carried by his family to a nearby foraging ground. He died at 4 from a zoonotic fever. Both parents outlived him. It’s random, it’s ai generated. Makes me appreciate life nevertheless.

I drew Vuk,a boy who lived in the 13th century Balkans. He died at 2. His dad was already gone. According to the statistics the life expectancy at birth for him was around 50%. I suspect a lot of our random people would have died early, if they were born before the 19th or 20th century...

Re: Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived

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Post by BubbleRings »

nonameiguess wrote: post #117
personjerry wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There were plenty of interesting side-projects on the internet before AI. This is a strawman. The original point was "the economics ... have changed" I read this as, it's much easier to spin up a project of this scale even non-monetized, and more people are able and willing to do so.

The site was registered a month ago. If it ever actually gets and stays popular, see if it has no ads then. The economics of personal interest sites didn't change in the sense that they're any harder to make now compared to the mid-90s. The economics that changed is the Internet now has billions of users and attention being monetized can make you a lot richer now than then. It's very hard for people to see an opportu…

Vibe slop? The structure of the site is quite solid, the UX decisions are spot on, the data looks good to me that knows little about this stuff, and it is entertaining and informative. This was not a one shot, a human out a lot of effort into this.

Yeah it is imperfect and was maybe not ready for the HN front page hug. But I say, bravo to the person or team!

Re: Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived

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Post by BubbleRings »

WA wrote: post #102
petilon wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> We might recognize that the economics of making such a fascinating and artful experiment like this have completely changed. And this is not limited to software development. In just a few years, the economics of delivering healthcare, education, entertainment and legal services are going to change completely. Transportation is changing as we speak. In a decade Physical AI will completely change the economics of manu…

In 10 years? I predict that healthcare, education, legal services and transporation won't change in a meaningful way at all. People will go to a doctor, kids will attend school and aim to graduate, legal services will still be done by lawyers and decided in court. Transportation will still depend largely on what exists right now or is being built right now. There won't be self-driving cars in every city, only in a fe…

I’d guess that education will hardly be recognizable in 10 years. Bad news for number of teachers employed, but AI is going to result in a huge increase in the number of 15-year-olds with a PhD’s level of knowledge and abilities in their heads.

Re: Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived

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Post by wat10000 »

gradus_ad wrote: post #127
magneticnorth wrote: post #47

This is neat, but I don't think it's actually drawing the year from the correct probability distribution - "a random birth is far more likely to fall near the present" is correct, but in 5 "random" choices, only one was from anywhere near modern day.

I think it's working as intended. The year is simply a randomly chosen year not related to the density of births in that year. It would be a boring tool if it actually chose "random year based on random birth" because almost every choice would be from 1900 onward...

The site covers a 300,000 year span, so a randomly chosen year would average ~150,000 BCE, which definitely isn't happening.

The skew towards the present isn't as stark as that. World population has exploded in the past couple of centuries, but it hasn't been high for very long. 1900 to present only covers ~11% of all births.

Re: Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived

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Post by zabriel_goss »

jorisboris wrote: post #100

My daughter is four. I drew a boy who lived 11000 years ago in Mexico. His longest travel was a half day walk carried by his family to a nearby foraging ground. He died at 4 from a zoonotic fever. Both parents outlived him. It’s random, it’s ai generated. Makes me appreciate life nevertheless.

I had a similar sensation. I often think about a friend of mine who mentioned, in passing, a sense of having won the lottery of life for being born in this day and age, in a first-world country

Re: Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived

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Post by BubbleRings »

btbuildem wrote: post #122

I drew one that died as a newborn, 960BCE, then another that lived a long long life! https://anyhumanever.com/life/2139137610-1449878292-21360978...

Ooh I like that it creates a URL that you can share that points to a particular generated human. Nice feature devs!

Re: Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived

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Post by blaze33 »

pteraspidomorph wrote: post #131
jorisboris wrote: post #100

My daughter is four. I drew a boy who lived 11000 years ago in Mexico. His longest travel was a half day walk carried by his family to a nearby foraging ground. He died at 4 from a zoonotic fever. Both parents outlived him. It’s random, it’s ai generated. Makes me appreciate life nevertheless.

I drew Vuk,a boy who lived in the 13th century Balkans. He died at 2. His dad was already gone. According to the statistics the life expectancy at birth for him was around 50%. I suspect a lot of our random people would have died early, if they were born before the 19th or 20th century...

Whole years! You'll are so lucky! The reincarnation roulette gave me this: 49 BCE, he lived 1 month, dying of dysentery. I guess I'll stop complaining about my life then...
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