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Canon

Yancey Strickler

Generalist

evenly connected to 44 minds

The Cooperative Institutionalist

“A former platform builder turned creative-labor organizer who believes the fundamental problem of modern life is that creative people lack the institutional structures to convert their cooperation into collective power and economic autonomy.”

Where they’re heading

→ constitutional law for creative collectives

74% pushing outward · constructive

Mapped April 2026

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Cognitive Topology

How Yancey’s mind works — mapped across 12 dimensions

This mind reasons extensively from first principles (top 5%), packs arguments at unusually high density (top 11%), and operates at a high level of abstraction (top 11%).

First-principles reasonerBalanced epistemic stanceFuture-orientedTension-aware thinkerBalanced abstraction
Assertive: strength of epistemic claims and convictionPolyvalent: holds multiple conflicting perspectives simultaneouslyTemporal: past-anchored ↔ future-oriented thinkingClaim-dense: argument density per unit of proseDivergent: magnitude of conceptual leaps between ideasDialectical: thesis–antithesis–synthesis engagementAbstract: preference for abstraction over concrete detailRhythmic: sentence rhythm and pacing variationAssertive: strength of epistemic claims and convictionPolyvalent: holds multiple conflicting perspectives simultaneouslyTemporal: past-anchored ↔ future-oriented thinkingClaim-dense: argument density per unit of proseDivergent: magnitude of conceptual leaps between ideasDialectical: thesis–antithesis–synthesis engagementAbstract: preference for abstraction over concrete detailRhythmic: sentence rhythm and pacing variationASSERTIVEPOLYVALENTTEMPORALCLAIM-DENSEDIVERGENTDIALECTICALABSTRACTRHYTHMIC
Yancey StricklerMaria Herd

Position Among Mapped Minds

Epistemic Confidence
P60
Tentative
Assertive
Epistemic Diversity
P32
Focused
Polyvalent
Temporal Orientation
P55
Past
Future
Argument Density
DenseP89
Exploratory
Dense
Conceptual Leap
P44
Convergent
Divergent
Dialectical Complexity
P70
Linear
Dialectical
Abstraction Level
AbstractP89
Concrete
Abstract
Intellectual Tempo
RhythmicP76
Steady
Rhythmic

Reasoning Source

AuthorityFirst PrinciplesExperienceEvidence

Topology Instruments

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0.9 nats · rarer than 41% of 266 minds

Prose Signature

How Yancey’s sentences move — measured at the syntactic and lexical level

punctuatedbalancedbaroqueLatinate
Sentence Length
BriefExpansive
Rhythm Variance
EvenVaried
Lexical Diversity
RepetitiveDiverse
Vocabulary Reach
NarrowWide
Word Length
ShortLong
Latinate Register
AngloRomance
Subordination
ParatacticHypotactic
Punctuation Pulse
CleanPulsed

Stylometric Provenance

Four stylometric instruments measuring how this prose patterns against an AI-generated baseline.

Composite distance

0.94

weighted sum of the four signals below

Burrows’ Δ
0.70
Burstiness |z|
1.10
Lexical |z|
1.60
Latinate |z|
0.56

Each instrument measures one axis of stylistic distance from the LLM baseline (n=30). Larger values mean the prose sits further from the baseline centroid. The composite weights function-word distribution at 0.5, the others at 0.2 / 0.2 / 0.1.

Stylistic Kin

Writers whose sentences move like Yancey’s — by Burrows’ Delta on function-word frequency

Yancey’s Mind

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