No. _SDI3

Canon

David Deutsch

Generalist

evenly connected to 49 minds

The Uncompromising Explicator

A Popperian rationalist using the failures of computation, Bayesianism, and institutional design to argue that genuine understanding — not prediction or probability — is the irreducible core of knowledge.

Where they’re heading

A positive theory of explanatory depth

71% pushing outward · constructive

Mapped April 2026

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Cognitive Topology

How David’s mind works — mapped across 12 dimensions

This mind is strongly past-anchored in reasoning (bottom 2%), develops ideas incrementally, step by step (bottom 21%), and writes with exceptional conviction (top 22%).

First-principles reasonerBalanced epistemic stancePresent-focusedTension-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
David DeutschTaylor Angus

Position Among Mapped Minds

Epistemic Confidence
AssertiveP78
Tentative
Assertive
Epistemic Diversity
P27
Focused
Polyvalent
Temporal Orientation
PastP2
Past
Future
Argument Density
P74
Exploratory
Dense
Conceptual Leap
ConvergentP21
Convergent
Divergent
Dialectical Complexity
DialecticalP78
Linear
Dialectical
Abstraction Level
P73
Concrete
Abstract
Intellectual Tempo
P60
Steady
Rhythmic

Reasoning Source

AuthorityFirst PrinciplesExperienceEvidence

Topology Instruments

0.8 nats · rarer than 37% of 267 minds

Prose Signature

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

rollingparatacticmoderatemixed
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

3.59

weighted sum of the four signals below

Burrows’ Δ
0.92
Burstiness |z|
3.29
Lexical |z|
11.97
Latinate |z|
0.82

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

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