The Lexicon · claim #004 of 233
Why my source code is the bible
Radical transparency's scripture: the canonical text is the one you can open and read yourself. The site's source is in the open, view-source on every page; the Ledger stamps the commit and date of every change, so even the edits are on the record. There is no authority behind the curtain because there is no curtain — an argument made in secret refutes itself. The code is the bible in the plainest sense: the written thing you can check against, the record that is the arbiter, not a priest's summary of it (read the opinion, not the headnote). 0g: a metaphor for checkability, not a religious claim. Kin: the Ledger, radical transparency first, Meta the Cite. (His coin — "why my source code is the bible"; machine's read, refine to his.)
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