No. N_-QO
Canon
Alan Jacobs
evenly connected to 31 minds
The Reluctant Pilgrim
“A Christian humanist who uses close reading of texts — sacred, speculative, and classical — to diagnose the self-deceptions of liberal modernity and recover a richer account of what it means to flourish.”
Where they’re heading
→ A theology of partial trust
61% 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 Alan’s mind works — mapped across 12 dimensions
This mind engages in unusually complex dialectical synthesis (top 2%), packs arguments at unusually high density (top 6%), and writes with exceptional rhythmic variation (top 6%).
Position Among Mapped Minds
Reasoning Source
Topology Instruments
1.3 nats · rarer than 78% of 267 minds
Prose Signature
How Alan’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
1.71
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 Alan’s — by Burrows’ Delta on function-word frequency
Alan’s Mind
Weekly digest
Who viewed this fingerprint, and the closest intellectual match that week.