No. SEDTQ

Canon

Adam Smith

Generalist

evenly connected to 9 minds

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.”

Where they’re heading

→ political theory of systematic policy failure

61% pushing outward · critical

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 16%), and stays close to concrete, observable ground (bottom 21%).

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 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
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Position Among Mapped Minds

Epistemic Confidence
TentativeP16
Tentative
Assertive
Epistemic Diversity
P71
Focused
Polyvalent
Temporal Orientation
P63
Past
Future
Argument Density
P41
Exploratory
Dense
Conceptual Leap
P56
Convergent
Divergent
Dialectical Complexity
P32
Linear
Dialectical
Abstraction Level
ConcreteP21
Concrete
Abstract
Intellectual Tempo
P59
Steady
Rhythmic

Reasoning Source

AuthorityFirst PrinciplesExperienceEvidence

Topology Instruments

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0.5 nats · rarer than 7% of 266 minds

Prose Signature

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

balancedbalancedmoderateLatinate
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

4.84

weighted sum of the four signals below

Burrows’ Δ
1.43
Burstiness |z|
7.84
Lexical |z|
12.50
Latinate |z|
0.56

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

Adam’s Mind

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