No. SEDTQ

Canon

Adam Smith

Core

central to a 6-mind community

The Reluctant Optimist

“Believes that human prosperity is not the product of virtue, planning, or governance, but of a single self-replicating mechanism — the division of labour — that governments reliably mistake for something they can improve by interfering with it.”

Mapped April 2026

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Cognitive Topology

How Adam’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 15%), and references named authorities heavily (top 22%).

Authority-referencingBalanced weigherFuture-orientedContrast-aware thinkerConcrete practitioner
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 variationASSERTIVEPOLYVALENTTEMPORALCLAIM-DENSEDIVERGENTDIALECTICALABSTRACTRHYTHMIC

Position Among Mapped Minds

Epistemic Confidence
TentativeP15
Tentative
Assertive
Epistemic Diversity
PolyvalentP77
Focused
Polyvalent
Temporal Orientation
P66
Past
Future
Argument Density
P38
Exploratory
Dense
Conceptual Leap
P63
Convergent
Divergent
Dialectical Complexity
P34
Linear
Dialectical
Abstraction Level
ConcreteP22
Concrete
Abstract
Intellectual Tempo
P56
Steady
Rhythmic

Reasoning Source

AuthorityFirst PrinciplesExperienceEvidence

Topology Instruments

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0.7 nats · rarer than 24% of 202 minds

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