alt Hacker NewsAny Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived
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we are probably living inside a more advanced version of this game right now.
Somebody, somewhere, somewhen rolled the dice and here we are.
> She was born and died at 2 of bubonic plague.
Yeah that does accurately sum up the 15th century.
Still slop coded bollocks though.
I had this idea for forever. Thank you for making it!
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.
Everyone keeps dying way too young :(
damn, well done
og/goat demo of synthetic data gen
only nit is 'draw' button often below the fold
This site is pure slop?
rolled a random human and got... myself?? statistically wild. turns out i'm just a guy. weirdly humbling
boy, born in the Guinea Coast in 211,966 BCE. Died from an accident at age 40.
Very cool. Reads like a Dwarf Fortress history. For those that don't play, every creature in the game has a life story.
Interesting. It rolls a few dice and presents a snapshot of someone who might plausibly have lived at a random place and time. Mine was a girl who lived on the Deccan Plateau in India, and died at six of tuberculosis.
an effective way to glean a little slice of understanding of the human experience throughout the ages, though 'every human never' might be more apt a name as its all statistics from the demographics to the generative portrait
Very moving and a little hard.
I died at age 2 of Typhoid Fever.
Modern take on Oregon Trail vibes I like it
> You have drawn a girl, born in the Levant in 1042 CE.
> She was born, married at 18, had 4 children, lost her mother at 28, was orphaned at 41, was widowed at 70, and died at 71 of heart failure (degenerative illness), with 3 surviving children and 9 grandchildren.
First try. Honestly I'm going to call this a W under the circumstances.
This is super cool
"You have died of dysentery."
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It said my character was born in Palestine (which never existed and nobody ever was from), but it was actually the ancient land of Judea and Sameria. Please fix this disgustingly racist and antisemitic app.
Love it!
I wrote a short story based on a similar scenario. (Caveat, I did it with AI help, but my ideas and many iterations and me doing final editing to get it the way I want).
https://garyrobinson.net/2026/08/18/everyone-who-will-ever-b...
"You have drawn a boy, born in the Paris Basin in 1970 CE."
Of all human history, it had to pick something off by 20 years and 200km.
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!