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* simulation, consciousness, cellular automata, artificial life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City (
by wfn 13y ago
* simulation, consciousness, cellular automata, artificial life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City (check http://libgen.org/ http://libgen.org/ for preview/pdf)
* more of sam's great stuff: http://qntm.org/structure http://qntm.org/structure and http://qntm.org/ra http://qntm.org/ra (ongoing)
- Uhhrrr 13y agoTo sell it to others a little more than you did: Folks, if you like that story you may well like Greg Egan's novel 'Permutation City'.
- andrewflnr 13y agoI just want to second the recommendations for Ra and Fine Structure. Fine Structure is older and not as polished, but still a lot of fun and fairly well executed. Ra is better. I enjoyed mood of the authors other stories too. I first found this site when someone linked to Fine Structure here on HN. And so it goes...
- bashinator 13y agoIt's funny, I first found that site many many years ago, when I did a web search (might not even have been Google) for "how to destroy the Earth".
- wfn 13y agoHis Earth Destruction article[1] is pretty well known indeed! iirc I first found the site via Everything2[2], a curious place where people do writeups about pretty much everything (from short technical articles to poetry.) I stumbled upon what looked like one of those diary entries (didn't see the 'fiction' label) by some 'sam512'[3], and was confused when giant robots and aliens suddenly appeared. [1]: http://qntm.org/destroy http://qntm.org/destroy [2]: http://everything2.com/ http://everything2.com/ [3]: http://everything2.com/user/sam512/writeups/March+9%252C+2003 http://everything2.com/user/sam512/writeups/March+9%252C+200...