No. AKEG0
Canon
David Perell
central to a 16-mind community
The Lucid Disenchanter
“A traveler-essayist who uses cities as mirrors to decode the gap between a place's (or person's, or culture's) self-image and its actual identity.”
Where they’re heading
→ a diagnostic grammar for civilizational self-deception
72% pushing outward · synthetic
Mapped April 2026
Fingerprint stability — Provisional
Based on one sample of writing. The pattern isn’t proven yet — submit another corpus to strengthen it.
Cognitive Topology
How David’s mind works — mapped across 12 dimensions
This mind is strongly past-anchored in reasoning (bottom 1%), writes with exceptional rhythmic variation (top 5%), and rarely appeals to external authority (bottom 14%).
Position Among Mapped Minds
Reasoning Source
Topology Instruments
0.8 nats · rarer than 34% of 267 minds
Prose Signature
How David’s sentences move — measured at the syntactic and lexical level
Stylometric Provenance
Four stylometric instruments measuring how this prose patterns against an AI-generated baseline.
Composite distance
0.86
weighted sum of the four signals below
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 David’s — by Burrows’ Delta on function-word frequency
David’s Mind
Weekly digest
Who viewed this fingerprint, and the closest intellectual match that week.