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scottmcmacyesterday at 3:44 PM5 repliesview on HN

"You have died of Dysentery [on the Korean Peninsula in 3064 BCE at 2 months old]"

I was actually a bit surprised since it also said I was exclusively breastfed which seems to be fairly protective against diarrhea. I have a feeling this didn't account for all the joint probability distributions...


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spullarayesterday at 4:03 PM

All babies were exclusively breastfed in 3064 BCE.

Sharlinyesterday at 5:32 PM

Yeah, it doesn't give totally absurd combinations (like a male dying of birth complications at age 10), but the probabilities are still likely rather rough approximations (eg. sorting cause-of-death distributions to a few bins like "infant", "child", "adult", "elder").

hliyanyesterday at 4:21 PM

Strangely, I too, died in the Korean Peninsula at 8 months old, but circa 6000 BCE.

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benayesterday at 4:07 PM

I died at 1 in Mesopotamia in 3966 BCE of dysentery.