| ▲ | glenstein 5 hours ago | |||||||
Now this is fun vibe coding. A fascinating way of reckoning with our cosmic luck. On "only the first roll counts" rules, I rolled a girl who died at 8 months from a respiratory infection in the Indus valley, in 7785 BCE (9,810 years ago). I rolled again, of course, but at that point it feels like fishing for a best case scenario. But I at least got someone from the North China Plain in 75 BCE who lived to 74 and had 6 grand children. Married at 19 and stayed married to age 71. Hard to hope for better than that, against these odds at least. Edit: Obviously progress isn't inevitable, and at any point in time you can be unlucky. But it does seem like, for most points in history, you would rather be you, in your version of the present, than a randomly rolled person from any prior point of history leading up to your moment. So most of the time, anyone playing this would feel more lucky to be themselves than any of the options they would have to roll for. Maybe if a version of this was offered to people 10,000 years from now they would say "crap, I rolled 2026". Edit 2: I think the death hug might have got it. | ||||||||
| ▲ | The_Blade 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
on my 6th only the first roll counts roll, i got a boy born near Nairobi in 36,112 BCE that lived to 70 probably like 5% of humanity has his genes now. that was fun vibe coding | ||||||||
| ▲ | retube 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
I died within 2 days on my first roll. made it to 8 months on my second | ||||||||
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