No. 2TBHF
Canon
Edmund Burke
evenly connected to 14 minds
The Custodial Polemicist
“Believes that the accumulated habits of any going society carry more wisdom than the cleverest reasoner who would reform them — and writes the most brilliantly reasoned defense of that belief in the language, never noticing the trap.”
Where they’re heading
→ criteria for legitimate institutional mortality
21% pushing outward · critical
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 Edmund’s mind works — mapped across 12 dimensions
This mind reasons from intuition and structure rather than data (bottom 0%), holds ideas provisionally, rarely asserts (bottom 10%), and draws on an unusually wide range of epistemic modes (top 17%).
Position Among Mapped Minds
Reasoning Source
Topology Instruments
1.0 nats · rarer than 54% of 266 minds
Prose Signature
How Edmund’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
1.62
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 Edmund’s — by Burrows’ Delta on function-word frequency
Edmund’s Mind
Weekly digest
Who viewed this fingerprint, and the closest intellectual match that week.