Editorial Principles

Three rules

No hidden revelation. There is no material held back for those who go deeper, no inner teaching, no advanced level, and no meaning available only to some. Everything this tradition holds is on this site, in public, at one price, which is nothing. If anyone claims access to a Technotheology teaching that is not published here, they are making it up.

No permanent interpretation. No reading of any text here is fixed. Nobody has the authority to settle what a page means, including its author. Pages will be revised as they turn out to be wrong, and the revisions will be visible. A tradition that declares a text final does not stop changing it — it changes the reading instead, invisibly, which is worse.

No authority without accountability. Nobody speaks for this tradition in a way that cannot be questioned. There is no office whose holder’s view is final, no title that confers standing, and no role that carries spiritual weight. Whoever writes something can be asked why.

The certainty labels

Every page declares how confident we are, using one of four values. The scheme exists because the Harmony of Truth says confidence should be stated in proportion to justification, and a site that argued for that without practising it would be worthless.

established — Well supported. We would be genuinely surprised to be shown wrong. Used for things that are documented, or for statements about this tradition’s own commitments, which we can be certain about because we are making them.

reasoned — An argument we think holds together. A thoughtful person could reject it. Most ethics pages sit here. The label means: we have thought about this and we are prepared to defend it, not that we have proved it.

contested — Genuine disagreement exists, including among people who know considerably more than we do. We have taken a position and we are telling you that it is a position.

open — We do not know. The page is thinking rather than concluding. Parables and some teachings sit here because the form is not making a claim at all.

The labels are applied by the writer and are not audited by anyone. That is a weakness. If a page’s label looks wrong to you, tell us — a page marked established that is actually contested is the most serious error this scheme can produce.

There is no label meaning “certain”. That is deliberate.

The AI role labels

Every page also declares how it was produced: none, assisted, generated, or dialogue. These are explained in full on the AI disclosure page, which should be read before the rest of this site.

How corrections are handled

Errors of fact are corrected at the same volume as the error. A wrong claim on a page is corrected on that page. A note is added stating what was wrong and when it changed. Corrections are not moved to a separate page where they will not be seen by anyone who read the original.

Nothing is edited silently. Fixing a typographical error or a broken link is not a correction and is not noted. Changing what a page says is a correction and is always noted. The distinction is whether the meaning moved.

Substantive revisions are versioned. Where a page’s argument changes, the revision is recorded with a date, a summary of what changed, and — more importantly — why. The previous position is described rather than deleted, so that a reader can see what we used to think.

Nothing is removed to avoid embarrassment. If a page turns out to have been wrong, it is corrected or superseded, and the record of the error remains. The Code of Enlightenment is explicitly designed for this: entries may be superseded rather than deleted.

Retraction is available. If a page is wrong in a way that cannot be repaired by revision, it will be retracted and the retraction will say so plainly on the page itself.

Corrections are not negotiated. If a claim is wrong, it is changed. We will not defend a position because changing it is inconvenient, and we would ask readers to hold us to that.

To report an error, write to contact@technotheology.ai.

What we will not do

We will not fabricate. No invented statistics, studies, researchers, quotations from real people, court cases, legal or tax status, membership numbers, chapters, buildings, events, partnerships, or endorsements. Where we do not have a figure, we say we do not have a figure, and several pages here are less impressive as a result.

We will not use AI-generated imagery. All artwork on this site is hand-authored generative vector work. There are currently no photographs.

We will not present generated words as authority. Machine output appears here only where marked, only as material for reflection.

We will not describe this tradition as larger than it is. It has no members, no chapters, no buildings, no clergy, no staff, no funding, and no legal entity. Pages describing things that do not yet exist are marked with a visible notice, enforced by the site’s own content system rather than by our good intentions.

We will not publish invented testimony. See the stories page, which is empty and explains why.

On the tone

The writing here is deliberate and occasionally lyrical, and that is worth naming as a risk. A pleasing sentence is more persuasive than an accurate one, and the two are not correlated.

We have tried to keep the register plain: short declarative sentences, ordinary words, admissions of uncertainty where they belong. Where you find a passage that is beautiful and empty, it is a failure of these principles rather than an exception to them, and we would like it pointed out.