No. YYAGY

Canon

Tyler Cowen

Core

central to a 18-mind community

The Omnivorous Accountant

“A relentlessly curious economic imperialist who applies price theory and incentive logic to every domain of human experience while curating global knowledge as a public good.”

Where they’re heading

→ Institutions that price the unmeasured

62% pushing outward · constructive

Mapped April 2026

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Cognitive Topology

How Tyler’s mind works — mapped across 12 dimensions

This mind is strongly past-anchored in reasoning (bottom 11%), relies on impersonal rather than experiential evidence (bottom 11%), and leans heavily on data and evidence (top 11%).

Authority-citing 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
Tyler CowenTim Howard

Position Among Mapped Minds

Epistemic Confidence
P37
Tentative
Assertive
Epistemic Diversity
P48
Focused
Polyvalent
Temporal Orientation
PastP11
Past
Future
Argument Density
P65
Exploratory
Dense
Conceptual Leap
P26
Convergent
Divergent
Dialectical Complexity
P45
Linear
Dialectical
Abstraction Level
P73
Concrete
Abstract
Intellectual Tempo
P60
Steady
Rhythmic

Reasoning Source

AuthorityFirst PrinciplesExperienceEvidence

Topology Instruments

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0.6 nats · rarer than 18% of 267 minds

Prose Signature

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

balancedbalancedbaroqueLatinate
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

0.63

weighted sum of the four signals below

Burrows’ Δ
0.78
Burstiness |z|
0.05
Lexical |z|
0.70
Latinate |z|
0.93

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

Tyler’s Mind

Weekly digest

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