⬡ Vespiary

The Atlas

People whose answers point the same way gather into bubbles — shared models of reality, found by measurement, not self-declared labels. 39 people placed so far. Below ~150 people the finest clusters are still blurry, so v1 places everyone against five well-defined archetypes; the map sharpens as answers accumulate.

How to read these maps

WHAT THIS SHOWS

Where everyone sits relative to everyone else, per topic — measured from answers, never from self-chosen labels. Near dots think or believe alike on that topic; the shaded regions are the bubbles (vespiary chambers) the measurements found.

WHAT IT CAN'T SHOW

Exact closeness — a map is a flat sketch of a many-dimensional thing, so trust the match % on a profile over eyeballing distances. It also can't place anyone who hasn't answered enough questions in that topic.

WHAT TO DO WITH IT

Pick the topic you care about, find your ringed dot, and tap the dots near it. To see everyone ranked against you instead, use You vs everyone.

The maps

Map:

The same people, re-plotted per topic — what they conclude. Watch a bubble hold together on one map and scatter on the next: that's a group that agrees about this topic for entirely different reasons, or the reverse.

On the maps:
Empirical Naturalists Scripture-First Theists Village Traditionalists Mystical Pluralists Vesp · placed from 100% of this set's questions Stephen Hawking · placed from 17% of this set's questions (fainter = placed from fewer answers) Stephen Hawking Steven Pinker · placed from 32% of this set's questions (fainter = placed from fewer answers) Steven Pinker C.S. Lewis · placed from 21% of this set's questions (fainter = placed from fewer answers) C.S. Lewis Existentialism · placed from 14% of this set's questions (fainter = placed from fewer answers) Existentialism Biblical Literalism · placed from 21% of this set's questions (fainter = placed from fewer answers) Biblical Literalism Sam Harris · placed from 30% of this set's questions (fainter = placed from fewer answers) Sam Harris The Dalai Lama · placed from 25% of this set's questions (fainter = placed from fewer answers) The Dalai Lama Jordan Peterson · placed from 34% of this set's questions (fainter = placed from fewer answers) Jordan Peterson Yuval Noah Harari · placed from 32% of this set's questions (fainter = placed from fewer answers) Yuval Noah Harari Ayn Rand · placed from 27% of this set's questions (fainter = placed from fewer answers) Ayn Rand Noam Chomsky · placed from 38% of this set's questions (fainter = placed from fewer answers) Noam Chomsky Friedrich Nietzsche · placed from 24% of this set's questions (fainter = placed from fewer answers) Friedrich Nietzsche Buddhism · placed from 15% of this set's questions (fainter = placed from fewer answers) Buddhism Careful Calibrator · placed from 100% of this set's questions Bayes or Nothing · placed from 100% of this set's questions Replication Crisis · placed from 100% of this set's questions Devout Traditionalist · placed from 100% of this set's questions Gentle Theist · placed from 100% of this set's questions Militant Atheist · placed from 100% of this set's questions Mystic Seeker · placed from 100% of this set's questions Effective Altruist · placed from 100% of this set's questions Longtermist EA · placed from 100% of this set's questions Libertarian Builder · placed from 100% of this set's questions Village Traditionalist · placed from 100% of this set's questions Doomer Prepper · placed from 100% of this set's questions Techno Optimist · placed from 100% of this set's questions Expert Deferrer · placed from 100% of this set's questions Conspiracy Gradient · placed from 100% of this set's questions Sloppy Thinker · placed from 100% of this set's questions Fence Sitter · placed from 100% of this set's questions Random Andy · placed from 100% of this set's questions Vegan Activist · placed from 100% of this set's questions Keto Carnivore · placed from 100% of this set's questions Academic Philosopher · placed from 100% of this set's questions Nihilist Shrug · placed from 100% of this set's questions Simulation Dreamer · placed from 100% of this set's questions Methodical Believer · placed from 100% of this set's questions Methodical Atheist · placed from 100% of this set's questions Gut Atheist · placed from 100% of this set's questions Beliefs Only · placed from 48% of this set's questions (fainter = placed from fewer answers) Quiet Private · placed from 100% of this set's questions Bertrand Russell · placed from 18% of this set's questions (fainter = placed from fewer answers) Bertrand Russell Karl Popper · placed from 20% of this set's questions (fainter = placed from fewer answers) Karl Popper David Hume · placed from 18% of this set's questions (fainter = placed from fewer answers) David Hume René Descartes · placed from 14% of this set's questions (fainter = placed from fewer answers) René Descartes W. V. O. Quine · placed from 14% of this set's questions (fainter = placed from fewer answers) W. V. O. Quine Ron Paul · placed from 65% of this set's questions (fainter = placed from fewer answers) Ron Paul Bernie Sanders · placed from 73% of this set's questions (fainter = placed from fewer answers) Bernie Sanders Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · placed from 82% of this set's questions Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Elon Musk · placed from 70% of this set's questions (fainter = placed from fewer answers) Elon Musk Nassim Nicholas Taleb · placed from 79% of this set's questions (fainter = placed from fewer answers) Nassim Nicholas Taleb Christopher Hitchens · placed from 83% of this set's questions Christopher Hitchens FilipGolarz · placed from 100% of this set's questions kelseng · placed from 100% of this set's questions Magi · placed from 99% of this set's questions naturalist supernaturalist Supernaturalism → expects progress expects decline Progress optimism

56 people plotted in this space · 12 people aren't placed yet — this map needs 10+ of its 71 questions answered before it can place someone. Circles are members; diamonds are the figures & schools, plotted from their documented positions. Distance on the map means difference of mind: positions come from a PCA projection of everyone's answers in this pool, and the bubbles below are drawn over their members as translucent regions. Axis labels name whatever each axis turned out to track, measured after the fact — where nothing tracked strongly, the axis honestly says so.

Empirical Naturalists 20 people Knowledge comes from observation and testing; confidence follows the data, testimony and mechanism bow to trials. Scripture-First Theists 11 people A creator exists and revealed truth matters; confidence in the faith of one's upbringing survives debunking arguments, and experts don't outrank it. Village Traditionalists 5 people Inherited rules earn their keep until their reason is found; promises bind, the past is judged gently, and voting is a duty. Mystical Pluralists 3 people Reality is bigger than measurement: testimony, experience and simplicity carry real weight, and the pattern matters more than the mechanism. Guarded Skeptics 0 people Institutions and paid advocates get discounted hard; one study moves nothing, and anomalies are presumed real until proven error.

◎ You vs everyone

The ego chart puts you at the center — it needs your answers first. Log in or join free and it appears right here, under the maps.