No. BP2C_

Canon

Simon Willison

Nexus

bridges 53 minds across disjoint neighborhoods

The Pragmatic Chronicler

“A pragmatic builder-chronicler mapping the exact boundary conditions where AI-assisted programming amplifies human craft versus corrupts it, using his own open-source tools as the primary laboratory.”

Where they’re heading

→ Institutional grammar for human-AI authorship boundaries

74% 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.

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Cognitive Topology

How Simon’s mind works — mapped across 12 dimensions

This mind develops ideas incrementally, step by step (bottom 21%) and leans heavily on data and evidence (top 23%).

Experiential reasonerBalanced epistemic stancePresent-focusedLinear argument builderBalanced 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
Simon WillisonTaylor Angus

Position Among Mapped Minds

Epistemic Confidence
P47
Tentative
Assertive
Epistemic Diversity
P41
Focused
Polyvalent
Temporal Orientation
P45
Past
Future
Argument Density
P65
Exploratory
Dense
Conceptual Leap
ConvergentP21
Convergent
Divergent
Dialectical Complexity
P57
Linear
Dialectical
Abstraction Level
P55
Concrete
Abstract
Intellectual Tempo
P41
Steady
Rhythmic

Reasoning Source

AuthorityFirst PrinciplesExperienceEvidence

Topology Instruments

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0.3 nats · rarer than 0% of 266 minds

Prose Signature

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

expansivehypotacticrichLatinate
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

1.54

weighted sum of the four signals below

Burrows’ Δ
0.86
Burstiness |z|
2.68
Lexical |z|
2.51
Latinate |z|
0.69

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 Simon’s — by Burrows’ Delta on function-word frequency

Simon’s Mind

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