Counterfactual · Eight Places · Five Eras反事实 · 八个地点 · 五个时代

The you that almost was. The thousand others that nearly were. 那个差点就是的你。那一千个几乎成为的你。

Pick an era and a place. The simulator runs your same body and same starting endowments through that world's economy, kinship structure, and mortality field, and returns a five-dimension life: career, relationships, status, emotional weather, and the death scenario most likely to find you there. 挑一个年代和一个地点。模拟器把你的同一身体、同一初始禀赋，跑过那个世界的经济、亲缘结构与死亡场，返回一段五维度的人生：职业、关系、地位、情绪气候，以及那里最可能找到你的死亡情境。

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P1 · Five Life Dimensions

Five things every era and place changes. The first three are obvious. The last two are the ones that bite.每个年代与地点都会改变的五件事。前三项显而易见，后两项才是真咬人的。

A counterfactual life is not a costume change. It's a different distribution over career attractors, mate selection, status mobility, dominant affect, and likely cause of death. Most popular alternate-history media misses the last two.反事实人生不是换戏装。它是职业吸引子、配偶选择、地位流动性、主导情感与可能死因之上的不同分布。多数大众平行历史媒体遗漏了后两项。

P2 · The Simulator

Pick an era. Pick a place. Pick a starting endowment.挑一个年代。挑一个地点。挑一项初始禀赋。

5 eras × 8 places × 4 endowments = 160 scenarios. Output is a short five-dimension biography. Honesty: this is a generator running templated narratives — not a frontier-model biography engine.5 个年代 × 8 个地点 × 4 种禀赋 = 160 种情境。输出是一段简短的五维度小传。坦诚：这是一台跑模板叙事的生成器——不是前沿模型的小传引擎。

P3 · Counterfactual Engine

Five canned counterfactuals plus a free-text fallback.五个预设反事实 + 自由文本回退。

Each probe answers one well-defined "what if" — including the harder ones the genre usually avoids. The free-text box runs a heuristic, not a frontier model.每个探针回答一个定义明确的"如果"——包括类型常回避的那些较难问题。自由文本框跑启发式，不跑前沿模型。

P4 · Guardrails

What this simulator refuses to pretend.本模拟器拒绝伪装的事。

Five things Parallel Life will not do.平行人生不会做的五件事。

  • No utopian determinism. Every era is generated with realistic mortality, status ceilings, and constraint cost. The Song Dynasty was beautiful; it was also a place where most lives ended young. We won't pretend otherwise.不做乌托邦决定论。每个年代都按现实的死亡率、地位上限与约束代价生成。宋代是美丽的；它也是大多数生命过早结束的地方。我们不假装相反。
  • No nationalist romance. The simulator does not glorify any particular era or polity. Empires fall; people grieve in every generation. The narratives are written from inside the constraint, not above it.不做民族主义浪漫。模拟器不美化任何特定年代或政体。帝国会陨落，每一代都有人哀伤。叙事是在约束之内书写的，不在其之上。
  • No "the past was better" framing. The simulator also refuses the inverse: "the future is unambiguously better." Both are stories. The data is messier.不做"过去更好"框架。模拟器也拒绝其反向："未来无疑更好"。两者都是故事，数据更乱。
  • No identity flattening. Counterfactual lives change everything but the body. The site won't pretend that being born in Tokyo 1880 is "still the same you in different clothes" — most of what you are now is downstream of your particular constraint set.不做身份扁平化。反事实人生改变除身体以外的一切。本站不假装出生于 1880 年东京"仍是穿着不同衣服的你"——你现在的大部分是你特定约束集的下游。
  • No infinite-AI-generation slop. 160 templated scenarios plus five canned counterfactuals plus one heuristic fallback is better discipline than infinite plausible-sounding LLM biographies.不做无限 AI 生成的污水。160 个模板化情境加五个预设反事实加一个启发式回退，比无穷个貌似合理的 LLM 小传是更好的纪律。