SOMEONE BUILT A WEBSITE THAT LETS YOU LIVE A RANDOM LIFE FROM EVERY HUMAN WHO HAS EVER LIVED.
it's called The Veil of History. veilofhistory.net
press one button. it gives you one random life.
117 billion humans have ever been born till today.
81% of them were born before 1650.
94% before 1900.
only 7% are alive right now.
so when you press draw, you probably land hundreds of years ago. as a poor farmer in old Asia. in a world where half of all kids did not live to grow up. no power. no clean water. no way to read.
19 out of every 20 humans who ever lived never had a modern life. you are almost certainly one of them.
based on John Rawls' 1971 "veil of ignorance." built by Ethan Mollick, a Wharton professor who studies AI.
just a website that shows a normal person what being human has actually been like.
open tab.
press one button.
land in someone else's life.
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