Permutation City

His own list is sorted by recommendation and obscurity, not recommendation alone. Permutation City has positive simulation/artificial-life context. This is one undated list event; no rank or preferred edition is asserted.

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Andrej Karpathy · undated · accessed 2026-10-02

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His own list is sorted by recommendation and obscurity, not recommendation alone. Permutation City has positive simulation/artificial-life context. This is one undated list event; no rank or preferred edition is asserted.

Reading-order advice retained as a mention because Hassabis is advising order between related Greg Egan books rather than making a standalone recommendation.

The quote is taken word for word from the source. It is a mention, not counted as a direct recommendation.

X · 2023-07-14 · accessed 2026-06-22

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The original X reply was fetched through the public fxtwitter mirror during batch 57. Hassabis calls Diaspora amazing and says it is best to read Permutation City first; this is reading-order evidence, not a standalone direct recommendation.