About | Random Lives
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Biographical stories of randomly sampled people from across all of human history
About | Random Lives About About 70 billion people have ever lived . This project randomly samples just 250 of these lives, to give a window into what a “typical” human experience was like. We cannot, of course, randomly sample from all humans the way we can read random articles on Wikipedia , view random roads on Random Street View , or listen to random radio stations on Radio Garden . For the vast majority of people who ever lived, essentially nothing remains of their lives. In the absence of root access to The Book of Life or a simulator’s log, this project aims to simulate such a random dr
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