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Permutation City

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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

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Listed on Karpathy's personal science-fiction page.
Tobi Lütke

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“Loved Permutation City. Hard science fiction exceptional.”

Lütke has tweeted at length about Greg Egan, calling out Permutation City specifically for the rigor of its science.
Naval Ravikant

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“[The author's] very dry but full of great ideas.”

The page cites a Naval tweet about Greg Egan.
George Hotz

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Among the books in Hotz's book-recommendations segment on the Lex Fridman Podcast #132 (2020).