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Show HN: The Lottery of Life

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/a62c4bac-3c05-4443-9d0a-50a9bd3f9d8d
15•atulvi•2h ago

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al_borland•1h ago
I was not aware 95% of all life was nematodes and beetles.
hecanjog•40m ago
I wonder what the result would be sorted by volume.
dash2•1h ago
I got 15 nematodes in a row which seems a lot even for an 80% chance.

Update: so now I learned something about compounding as well as about nematodes. Prob is about 0.03, much more than I’d have guessed.

bhu8•40m ago
I think something is broken though. I got 20 nematodes in a row. It's around 1% prob.
anjel•33m ago
Same
breppp•46m ago
There was a game using this mechanic called RealLives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Lives_(video_game)

You had a random chance at being born anywhere in the world weighted by population. A big lesson from the game is if you are born in Africa and you survive childhood, your best bet is somehow immigrating to the West

soulchild37•38m ago
The random seed seems fixed, I tried 100 clicks and get Nematode
altilunium•28m ago
I got one beetle at first, then the rest of them were all nematodes.
gregjw•20m ago
I think we're all Nematodes.
applfanboysbgon•5m ago
I've thought about this a lot in the past, and it seems like the strongest argument for our existence being a simulation. What are the odds of being born a human and not a bacteria, a fly, or, apparently, a nematode? What are the odds that I would be born into a wealthy country? What are the odds that I would be born into what appears to be the end of history -- the most prosperous species in the most prosperous time of Earth's 4 billion year history of life, where I can live comfortably, but technology has created multiple civilization-ending threats that will probably come into fruition shortly after I am gone (should I be so lucky)?

The only thing that gives me pause is that if this is a simulation, the beings that created it are evil for creating both a world so full of suffering and a simulation so detailed (from my own perspective) that we fully experience such suffering. For what purpose could simulations like this possibly serve, I wonder. Does it entertain such hypothetical higher beings, in the way that we create murder simulations to entertain ourselves?

bronlund•2m ago
The building blocks of an organism, is cells, and an elephant has roughly 5 billion times the cell count than a nematode. So I think it is unfair to the elephant to only count the single organisms.

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