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Permutation City
Science Fiction
Hard science fiction about simulated minds, cellular automata, and what it means to exist as a pattern of computation. Egan takes physics and philosophy of mind seriously enough that the book reads half-novel, half-thought-experiment.
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Andrej Karpathy
Computation / simulation stack — five-star Karpathy read; explores substrate-independent mind and the physics of simulation, central to his thinking about what computation is.
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Tobi Lütke
“Loved Permutation City by Greg Egan. Hard science fiction. The quality of the science in this book is exceptional.”
Lütke has tweeted at length about Greg Egan, calling out Permutation City specifically for the rigor of its science.
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Naval Ravikant
“[Author's] very dry but full of great ideas.”