Couldn't find a lot of info, but the creator Marek Gibney was featured in an MIT Tech Review article.
“If 90 percent of the readers of Douglas Hofstadter also like [Stephen] Hawking, the distance between these two writers in the Hofstadter-Hawking dimension is 0.1,” Gibney says.
“If 90 percent of the readers of Douglas Hofstadter also like [Stephen] Hawking, the distance between these two writers in the Hofstadter-Hawking dimension is 0.1,” Gibney says.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2004/03/19/40243/sketchy-in...