No. SS_DU
Canon
Benjamin Franklin
central to a 12-mind community
The Deliberate Self-Manufacturer
“Franklin's Autobiography is not a memoir but a proof-of-concept: the argument that a self can be engineered through deliberate technique, and that admitting this openly is more persuasive than pretending otherwise.”
Where they’re heading
→ institutions that outlast their founders' vanity
71% 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 Benjamin’s mind works — mapped across 12 dimensions
This mind builds from accumulated frameworks rather than axioms (bottom 0%), holds ideas provisionally, rarely asserts (bottom 3%), and grounds arguments in personal experience (top 3%).
Position Among Mapped Minds
Reasoning Source
Topology Instruments
1.5 nats · rarer than 89% of 267 minds
Prose Signature
How Benjamin’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
1.45
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 Benjamin’s — by Burrows’ Delta on function-word frequency
Benjamin’s Mind
Weekly digest
Who viewed this fingerprint, and the closest intellectual match that week.