[tibbetts]

Sounds like a Greg Egan writing prompt.

[dmd]

Baez and Egan are close friends, so don’t be surprised if you see it pop up.

[mst]

Egan would probably be my first thought of somebody who could take a concept like that and make something well worth reading out of it.

Second thought would probably be Derek Künsken. (no claim he's necessarily the second best option but he's definitely the second author I've read recently enough to have the name of in brain cache to come to mind as "could almost certainly pull it off")

[szundi]

People just prompt themselves