You are standing in the foyer.
This is a house built out of a working vault: several thousand notes, papers, tools, and half-finished things, kept by one person in Indiana. It is not a game. There is nothing to collect and no way to lose. There are rooms, and doors, and things on the walls to read.
Three rules govern the house. What is current has its lights on. What is superseded is still here, upstairs, with the lights off and a stamp on the door. What is private has no connecting door at all.
On the wall by the door
principleCoherence is proven by reality contactNot by argument. A claim that has never touched the world has not been tested; a claim that survives contact and honest subtraction is the only kind kept downstairs.
principleMove verbatim, never deleteThe compost rule. Nothing in this house is thrown away. It is moved, stamped, and left where it can still be found.
principleThe old claims stay visibleThe attic is on the tour. A house that hides what it used to believe cannot be trusted about what it believes now.