The person I pulled is from 42,000 BCE. The map shows a densely populated region in South America. I'm pretty sure that goes against mainstream archeological evidence which says Humans arrived in the Americas 15,000-30,000 years ago.
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#302Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can do that legally as long as you do not confuse people that what you create might be an actual Disney product, or that you try to represent it as actually created by Disney. Both of those are protected by law. Learning from a Disney movie and creating your own thing is not, and should not be, disallowed.
What law in what country?
Berne convention countries plus a few more I guess,
Maybe not Eritrea or Kosovo?
Re: Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived
#303Earlier quoted context omitted.
But "is far more likely to fall near the present" = "is far more likely to fall near the present". The author makes the claim about probability distribution themselves, then does the opposite.
You're right, yet I agree with the website's approach. The goal of this site is to educate users about how people lived, not educate them about stats. IMO. I would have chosen the same algo. It's clear to me that an even bigger HC crowd would howl "Oh, how boring, look at him choosing pretty much only still alive people" if he had done the 'uniformly random" selection. C'mon!
> The goal of this site is to educate users about how people lived, not educate them about stats. IMO.
And IMO, a website that's 95% stats by volume very clearly is about stats. If the goal is teaching anything, it's teaching stats. It literally does animations showing the random process, and explicitly says how likely each outcome is, even sorts by likelihood in some places.
Again, I wouldn't have as much of a problem with that if the website itself didn't explicitly say that recent births are more likely than non-recent births.
Personally, the one 1990s person I've got was far more interesting than the dozen of 5th-15th century children that all died of one sickness or another before the age of 2. If anything, it's the dying of dysentery that should be non-uniformly random.
Re: Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived
#304My 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...
The Jewish faith traditionally waits to name the baby until a few days or weeks have passed (apparently varying by gender). I suspect this somewhat delayed recognition of the child is meant to gently, if slightly, address the horrifying reality of high infant mortality in pre-modern days.
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#305"You have died of Dysentery [on the Korean Peninsula in 3064 BCE at 2 months old]" I was actually a bit surprised since it also said I was exclusively breastfed which seems to be fairly protective against diarrhea. I have a feeling this didn't account for all the joint probability distributions...
Babies died of diarrhea anyway. Breastfeeding is not a panacea. If it were, doctors would simply prescribe a flask of breast milk, and mothers would earn money by prolonging lactation for Big Medicine.
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#306This is awesome. I love seeing how humans have evolved into what we are today.
Evolution doesn't really play into much of this. It's cultural and technological progress - medicine, hygiene, improvements in agriculture...
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#307Ivan was born in 1922CE in Ukraine. He ate mushrooms for fruit. Six famines and a volcanic eruption happened in his lifetime. He died at 59 from a stroke. It's just going to skip over the fact he would have been a young adult during the Second World War? That event isn't as important as a faraway volcanic eruption to mention? Such useless AI slop. https://anyhumanever.com/life/1025135085-1150629022-11334962...
"mushrooms for fruit" - how do you prepare mushrooms to replace fruits??
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#308Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
> the data looks good to me that knows little about this stuff I majored in history. I'd say the data is misleading. I drew a boy "In the Ganges Plain, 1411 BCE". According to the summed up data he had a 54% risk of dying of neonatal tetanus, sepsis or dysentery. Which isn't wrong as such, but it would probably have been better to sum it up with all the other diseases, parasites and infections that would be needed to…
Did see the coast? Pray tell where outside of Russia did vikings live in a non martime environment? Have you seen a map of scandanavia?
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#309Earlier quoted context omitted.
James was born on the British Isles, near Boulogne-sur-Mer, in 2009 CE. James's table is mostly oat and barley bread, pork and dairy, and cabbage and peas, with apples in season, and coffee and sugar as well. He is literate. Odd for a gen-z person in Britain. I doubt he’d eat a lot of cabbage, and I have no idea when the “season” for apples is as they are always in the supermarket and there aren’t any orchards near w…
> James died in 2027 as he jumped to his death from his room in a five-story hotel —his belly full of barley juice.
believable. the British Isles love them some barley juice.
> James was in frequent conflicts with other members of his village at late night, while having a belly full of barley juice.
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#310If you want the non-vibecoded version of this, try the Real Lives software
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Lives_(video_game)
https://archive.org/details/reallives2007-interactivelifesim...
