No. CKRBV

Canon

Robin Sloan

Nexus

bridges 7 minds across disjoint neighborhoods

The Deliberate Tinkerer

“A maker-writer testing whether analog craft and digital wonder can be woven into a single coherent life without either dissolving the other.”

Where they’re heading

→ A grammar for digitally-native analog permanence

67% 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 Robin’s mind works — mapped across 12 dimensions

This mind reasons from intuition and structure rather than data (bottom 0%), builds arguments in a linear, non-dialectical way (bottom 4%), and writes in an exploratory, open-ended style (bottom 8%).

Experiential reasonerBalanced epistemic stancePresent-focusedLinear argument builderConcrete practitioner
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
Robin SloanTed N’Gongo

Position Among Mapped Minds

Epistemic Confidence
TentativeP17
Tentative
Assertive
Epistemic Diversity
FocusedP9
Focused
Polyvalent
Temporal Orientation
PastP19
Past
Future
Argument Density
ExploratoryP8
Exploratory
Dense
Conceptual Leap
ConvergentP8
Convergent
Divergent
Dialectical Complexity
LinearP4
Linear
Dialectical
Abstraction Level
P27
Concrete
Abstract
Intellectual Tempo
P26
Steady
Rhythmic

Reasoning Source

AuthorityFirst PrinciplesExperienceEvidence

Topology Instruments

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0.8 nats · rarer than 37% of 267 minds

Prose Signature

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

rollingparatacticbaroquemixed
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

2.32

weighted sum of the four signals below

Burrows’ Δ
0.85
Burstiness |z|
8.55
Lexical |z|
0.34
Latinate |z|
1.13

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

Robin’s Mind

Weekly digest

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