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localroger's personal blog at localroger.com covers games, philosophy and writing. Since 2007, 47 different Hacker News readers have linked it 59 times, most often “The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (2002)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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47HN people?
2007–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2023

Most-linked posts?

  1. /prime-intellect/
    10 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2013-07-12
  2. The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (2002)
    9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2011-12-08
  3. /
    7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2010-10-19
  4. Passages in the Void
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-08-19
  5. The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (1994)
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-02
  6. /prime-intellect/mopiall.html
    2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-04-21
  7. /prime-intellect/
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-03-31
  8. /prime-intellect/index.html
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-08-27
  9. The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (1994)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-24
  10. /k5host/mpass.html
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-22

What Hacker News says?

  1. devurand · 2019-12-20
    Good ol' localroger. I never knew I wanted to read singularity fiction that included zombie rape and forced incest until Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis_of_Prime_Int... http://localroger.com/prime-intellect/mopiidx.html

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    on “This Page is Designed to Last”
  2. lawrenceyan · 2025-06-03

    Submitted The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (1994) as a story · 167 points

    HN discussion
  3. samus · 2021-02-22
    This reminds me of "Passages in the Void"[1] where the most successful (and only sane) line of AIs was created from a microtomed human brain. The story ultimately had a different focus, so it was highly optimistic about the long-term feasibility of uploading. [1]: http://localroger.com/k5host/mpass.html

    Comment linking /k5host/mpass.html

    on “Lena”
  4. rocheio · 2024-01-07

    Submitted The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (2002) as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. genpfault · 2021-02-22
    Hmm, sounds a lot like localroger's "Passages in the Void"[1] series, in particular " Mortal Passage"[2]. [1]: http://localroger.com/ [2]: http://localroger.com/k5host/mpass.html

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    on “Lena”
  6. Frotag · 2025-07-02

    Submitted Passages in the Void as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. vidarh · 2017-11-14
    The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect [1] (full text available for free; be warned it's extremely violent and sexual) is an interesting novel where immortality is not optional: An AI was "let loose" with a variation of Asimovs laws of robotics, and interpreted the requirement not to let anyone come to harm through inaction as requiring it to literally end death. The main character is a woman that feels it left her li…

    Comment linking /prime-intellect/

    on “Why I’m Digging Deep Into Alzheimer’s”
  8. boppo1 · 2024-02-25

    Submitted The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (AI, 1994) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. twic · 2019-09-30
    A friend recommended this to me years ago, and i still haven't got round to reading it: http://localroger.com/prime-intellect/

    Comment linking /prime-intellect/

    on “Hard comp-fi reading list”
  10. true_repairman · 2023-07-10

    Submitted The Fifth Gift (2005) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. gpvos · 2024-02-09
    You could try his other writings, such as The Curators, which I just finished and can recommend. It has some sex in it but much more normal, and the violence is mostly abstract (like destroying a planet by teleporting it into its star). Available at his website http://localroger.com/ .

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    on “Permutation City (1994)”
  12. dosger · 2023-05-19

    Submitted The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect as a story · 2 points

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  13. dempseye · 2016-05-02
    You can still read legendary Kuro5hin contributor localroger's writing here: http://localroger.com/

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    on “RIP Kuro5hin”
  14. _cbdev · 2015-09-16

    Submitted The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect as a story · 2 points

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  15. worldsayshi · 2016-10-26
    The short story Metamorphosis of prime intellect deals with the same theme, you may be interested: http://localroger.com/prime-intellect/

    Comment linking /prime-intellect/

    on “‘Black Mirror’ Finds Terror, and Soul, in the Machine”
  16. nz · 2026-03-02

    Submitted The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (1994) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. vidarh · 2020-01-21
    The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect [1] describes a post-singularity world where an AI prevents people from dying permanently, and one woman in protest takes up finding creative ways to kill herself (and getting stopped and patched up each time) and turns it into a sport with a following... I'm sure there would be some people that'd take risks to that extreme. [1] http://www.localroger.com/prime-intellect/ (with th…

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    on “A singer apologized, closed his eyes, dropped his head and died onstage”
  18. bad_program · 2023-09-21

    Submitted The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. tazjin · 2026-10-30
    Relevant sci-fi story (not exactly short, but you can get through it in a day): https://localroger.com/prime-intellect/mopiidx.html

    Comment linking /prime-intellect/mopiidx.html

    on “We won't "just hang out"”
  20. cwillu · 2022-09-20

    Submitted The Passage Home as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. gergoerdi · 2016-06-22
    The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect: http://localroger.com/prime-intellect/

    Comment linking /prime-intellect/

    on “Concrete AI Safety Problems”
  22. ashildr · 2017-10-08
    The metamorphosis of prime intellect: http://localroger.com/prime-intellect/ Not sure whether it’s hard, it has quite an unexpected but plausible plot. There’s much love in me for this weird, twisted, brutal and captivating story — I think it’s much underappreciated.

    Comment linking /prime-intellect/

    on “Ask HN: Best hard scifi AI novels?”
  23. randomcarbloke · 2025-06-03
    Not portably, but on https://localroger.com/ under "Passages in the Void" it is available in plaintext, back in the day I read it on kuro5hin.

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    on “The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (1994)”
  24. milleramp · 2025-06-03
    There is also the short story A Casino Odyssey in Cyberspace: https://localroger.com/k5host/casodycs.html For me it clarified ideas from the book.

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    on “The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (1994)”
  25. Freaky · 2015-04-27
    Greg Egan's "Disapora"[1] (where most of us literally live in computers) and "Permutation City"[2] (living in a cellular automata). Similar themes in Roger William's "The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect"[3] (an AI accidentally takes over the universe). 1: http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/DIASPORA/DIASPORA.h... 2: http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/PERMUTATION/Permuta... 3: http://localroger.com/prime-…

    Comment linking /prime-intellect/

    on “Six works of Computer Science-Fiction”
  26. xrtino · 2024-07-24
    MPPP features as a plot point in this science fiction story about a benevolent yet unconstrained AGI: https://localroger.com/prime-intellect/mopiall.html Worth a read, it's quite a tale.

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    on “MPPP – The first 'designer drug' disaster (2023)”
  27. boxed · 2022-09-01
    http://localroger.com/k5host/pitv.html is my favorite take on this

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    on “An extrasolar world covered in water?”
  28. samus · 2020-08-22
    Given a high enough tech level and a sufficient handle on the associated ethics, you could [digitize your population and restore it afterwards]( http://localroger.com/revelation-passage/borden3.html )

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    on “Hubble finds that Betelgeuse's dimming is likely due to ejection of gases”
  29. boxed · 2020-08-19
    I disagree. http://localroger.com/k5host/pitv.html I have re read that dozens of times. It's a striking and powerful vision of a possible future.

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    on “Humanly Traversable Wormholes”
  30. seiji · 2012-03-10
    You should read The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect before discussing pleasure-to-death scenarios: http://localroger.com/prime-intellect/mopiidx.html

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    on “Is Intelligence Self-Limiting?”

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