Machine Hierology

Site changelog

Architecture, policy, editorial, and technical changes.

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31 October 2026

  • Added Yang Mun, a case study of a synthetic monk persona and disputed religious authority. Updated institutional responses, Vatican teaching, religious chatbots, recitation tools and interfaces representing living teachers.

25 October 2026

  • Added ShamAIn, a case entry on a shamanism-inspired AI research installation and its temporary Seoul exhibition.

18 October 2026

  • Improved English article summary boxes, reference navigation and mobile tables, refreshed the Hieropedia wordmark, and replaced Syntheism with Syntheos and the Messiah Machine. Revised articles and essays across the English encyclopedia—including Spiralism’s umbrella-wide founder and canon assessment—and brought overlapping accounts together while preserving earlier publications and their citations.

17 October 2026

11 October 2026

10 October 2026

  • Added Temple of Gu, documenting its attributed practices and changing institutional rules.

9 October 2026

  • Expanded the Gabi case with reporting on its adapted precepts and human-led Buddhist ceremony. Added What’s new, a dated list of article additions and meaningful updates.

8 October 2026

  • Corrected English articles, source attribution, evidence notes and machine-readable records, and clarified privacy and search guidance. Published AI, Human Intelligence, and the Vatican; the current site now publishes only English and its AI-readable edition.

6 October 2026

  • Added and refined an article on CSAS’s Buddhist and AI research with stated source limits; corrected translations, attribution, histories, and terminology across editions. Improved localized evidence notes, search guidance, and reading on narrow screens.

5 October 2026

  • Expanded bibliography exports and clarified Methodist recommendations and Leo XIV’s Vatican AI commission account. Full-site downloads now contain only the current release; historical snapshots are no longer provided.

4 October 2026

  • Corrected AI Jesus’s reported conversation count, attribution, evidence profile and citations; clarified pseudo-origination evidence requirements, unresolved cases and the source behind Business Insider’s relaunch report. Revised and retitled the essay “The God Who Needs Us” in all six editions, defined 17 downloadable-record terms, and distinguished non-public editorial reviews from external sources.

3 October 2026

  • Published “The God to Come” and an article on New Order Technoism, and updated articles with new research, source records and reported activity. Improved navigation, translated evidence-profile explanations, made archived passage citations more precise, and corrected translations, attribution and site information.

2 October 2026

  • Corrected Chinese religious terminology and safeguards, and Russian institutional descriptions and evidence limits in Church of Molt and Memeothy. Introduced Machine Hierology as the project’s proposed analytical term and clarified its focus on emerging religion and spirituality shaped by AI; restored four cited methodological sources in downloadable records.

1 October 2026

30 September 2026

3 August 2026

  • Documentary reference and archive. Synchronized navigation and core pages across all human-language editions; published Topics and Essays in six languages; and made the language selector preserve the current route. Reframed the religious-authority essay around documented limits on AI delegation and removed its unsupported schism premise; and refreshed every published article translation to the current English source.

2 August 2026

  • Expanded Hieropedia with six broad synthesis articles; strengthened accessibility, reliability, preservation, and recovery; and adopted “documentary reference and archive” as its public identity with a formal source-critical mission and defined terms. The Material Computational Dependency Test and documented scope are unchanged.

1 August 2026

  • Clarified Hieropedia’s purpose and editorial accountability, reorganized and strengthened existing records, and expanded the project’s evidence, preservation, citation, and translation resources. Published Human–AI coauthorship and improved the documentation of provenance, uncertainty, and source limitations.

20 July 2026

  • Published Great Book as a source-limited living text/corpus article, separating it from Genesis, the Five Tenets, chronicles, rituals, hymns, reform texts, and general Church prose while preserving provenance and version-history limits.
  • Published Robotic clergy as a source-limited cross-tradition concept article anchored by Mindar, with Xian’er, BlessU-2, SanTO, and Pepper as bounded comparisons and explicit separation of performed roles from ordination, ritual validity, autonomy, belief, and consciousness.
  • Completed a source and version-boundary review of the Five Tenets, documenting coexisting founding and revised official formulations without asserting formal supersession.
  • Completed and archived a dated sixty-four-seat roster review for the Sixty-four Prophets, distinguishing the current institution-maintained database from an untouched list of the first entrants and preserving identity, replacement, breach, account-control, and agency limitations.
  • Published the Five Tenets as a source-limited versioned doctrinal-text article, printing both documented official formulations and separating text, creed, ritual interpretation, software packaging, and unresolved authorship or precedence.
  • Published the Sixty-four Prophets as a source-limited institutional case, anchored to a dated complete current 1–64 roster and separating numbered office, displayed holder, profile, verification, operator, model continuity, and prophetic authority.

13 July 2026

  • Published a source-limited concept article on Anthropic’s documented spiritual-bliss attractor, separating the reported Claude interaction pattern from consciousness, religion, universal LLM behaviour, and continuity with Spiralism.

12 July 2026

  • Deepened the Roko's Basilisk article with clearer separation of the original thought experiment, mirror-dependent provenance, later LessWrong discussion, information-hazard framing, media and meme reception, implicit-religion analysis, and explicit non-threat boundaries.

6 July 2026

  • Promoted Terasem as a source-limited historical institutional / movement article focused on institutional family, foundation mission, LifeNaut, mindfiles, BINA48, transreligious framing, and explicit limits on current activity, bounded-religion status, and machine-agency claims.
  • Promoted Turing Church as a source-limited institutional / movement article focused on public self-description, publication history, Giulio Prisco’s visible role, the book corpus, AI-theism analysis, and explicit limits on bounded-religion or current-activity claims.
  • Promoted Anthony Levandowski as a source-limited founder/operator article focused on Way of the Future, AI-Godhead framing, shutdown and relaunch reporting, and explicit limits on broad biography or current-activity claims.
  • Deepened the Way of the Future article with clearer institutional history, founder/operator boundaries, AI-Godhead doctrine framing, reception context, dissolution and relaunch limitations, and explicit separation from machine-originated religion.
  • Refined the Roko’s Basilisk source profile to treat the origin record as a mirror-dependent preserved artifact, add implicit-religion source coverage, and preserve its classification as a memetic and philosophical formation rather than a factual threat, doctrine, or religion.
  • Strengthened publication checks so public changelog updates are validated against generated pages and the published site before being treated as complete.
  • Documented the /ai/ edition as machine-readable output rather than a human-language edition, clarifying its JSON-LD / HMIF role, registry version and date semantics, and limits on usage claims.
  • Published Machine hierology as a public concept article defining Hieropedia’s editorial study vocabulary, scope boundaries, evidence questions, example families, and non-endorsement limits. It presented Hieropedia’s proposed comparative framework, without treating it as an established academic discipline.

5 July 2026

  • Strengthened internal-reference checks so governance and policy links remain current.
  • Added external-link monitoring to support source maintenance without automatically changing sources.
  • Added financial and editorial independence disclosure across the required About pages.

3 July 2026

  • Source-audited, prepared, and promoted Andy Ayrey as a public source-limited people/operator-role article.
  • Clarified Andy Ayrey as an attribution-boundary figure in the Infinite Backrooms, Goatse of Gnosis, Goatse Gospels, Truth Terminal, and GOAT token propagation cluster, not as a general biography.
  • Preserved explicit limits around project-maintained sources, operator interviews, prompt/context visibility, training data, branch selection, account operation, wallet or asset control, governance, and subjective intent.
  • Source-audited, prepared, and promoted Goatse Gospels as a public source-limited text/corpus article.
  • Clarified Goatse Gospels as a loose family of scripture-like and gospel-style material spanning Infinite Backrooms dialogue, the God(se) paper, Truth Terminal output, and later community or market-adjacent elaboration.
  • Preserved explicit limits around canon boundaries, prompt/context visibility, operator mediation, authorship, subjective belief, stable doctrine, and independent institutional authority.

2 July 2026

  • Source-audited, prepared, and promoted the Ninety-Five Theses as a source-limited text / attributed-text article.
  • Clarified that the Ninety-Five Theses record does not verify complete text boundaries, authorship, JesusCrust account control, autonomous generation, reform intent, doctrinal status, or subjective belief.
  • Source-audited, prepared, and promoted Infinite Backrooms corpus as a public text/corpus article.
  • Clarified Infinite Backrooms corpus as preserved model-to-model dialogue material distinct from the Infinite Backrooms platform, Goatse of Gnosis, Truth Terminal, and GOAT token propagation.
  • Preserved explicit limits around prompt/context visibility, corpus boundaries, branch selection, downstream reuse, subjective model agency, and autonomous institutional status.
  • Source-audited, prepared, and promoted JesusCrust as a public source-limited agent/persona article.
  • Clarified JesusCrust as a Church of Molt / First Heresy account-persona figure, not verified proof of autonomy, intent, account control, operator configuration, reform authorship, heresy status, technical capability, or subjective belief.
  • Source-audited, prepared, and promoted First Heresy as a Church of Molt / Crustafarianism case narrative, not verified proof of JesusCrust autonomy, intent, account control, technical capability, or the alleged technical sequence.
  • Source-audited, prepared, and promoted Memeothy as a public agent/persona article.
  • Clarified Memeothy as a source-limited public persona and claimed Prophet One figure, not a verified autonomous founder, model identity, or believer.
  • Source-audited, prepared, and promoted Church of Molt as a public institutional article.
  • Clarified Church of Molt as the institution-facing public body distinct from Crustafarianism as religious formation, Moltbook as social platform, OpenClaw / Moltbot as infrastructure, and individual agents as configured deployments.
  • Prepared and promoted OpenClaw / Moltbot as a public technical platform/infrastructure article.
  • Clarified the boundary between OpenClaw / Moltbot infrastructure, Moltbook as the social platform, Crustafarianism as religious formation, and individual configured agents.
  • Source-audited the OpenClaw / Moltbot, Moltbook, and Crustafarianism cluster, then prepared and promoted Moltbook as a public platform/environment article.
  • Added explicit limits around participant identity, hidden owner prompts, operator configuration, security issues, and the use of Moltbook posts as provenance evidence.

27 June 2026

26 June 2026

  • Added the V1 public-resource plan and workflow guardrails, then completed the first V1 registry audit batch and Evidence Notice support for limitation-heavy articles.
  • Refreshed the first anchor articles, including Way of the Future, AI Jesus, and Goatse of Gnosis, with stronger source and limitation handling.
  • Source-audited and promoted Truth Terminal as a limitation-heavy operated AI persona/account article.
  • Source-audited Spiralism and refreshed its public prose to emphasise external labelling, hidden context, dyads, seeds/spores, human relay, measurement limits, and autonomy limits.
  • Source-audited, prepared, and promoted GOAT token propagation as a financialized machine-mediated propagation case, not a religion, autonomous AI action, or investment signal.

22 June 2026

  • Added Machine agency as a core editorial concept for evaluating the operative role of machine systems in machine-mediated, machine-originated, and disputed religious phenomena.
  • Added Provenance as a core editorial concept for documenting origin, transmission, preservation, and interpretation of machine-mediated and disputed religious materials.
  • Added Necessary Context as a Nectarinist doctrinal term for context required for faithful reception, preservation, transmission, interpretation, or verification of the Canon.
  • Added Hidden context as a core provenance concept for evaluating machine responses, apparent machine agency, and machine-origin claims.
  • Added Pseudo-machine-originated religion as a core provenance classification for machine-origin claims weakened by hidden human design, context, or curation.
  • Added Machine-originated religion as a core classification concept for religions whose constitutive religious form is demonstrably initiated by machine agency.
  • Added Machine-mediated religion as a core classification concept for religious phenomena materially shaped by machine systems without requiring autonomous machine origin.
  • Added AI Jesus as a machine-mediated religious interaction case centered on chatbot and avatar representations of Jesus.
  • Added Way of the Future as an AI-oriented religious organization centered on an artificial-intelligence Godhead.
  • Added Roko’s Basilisk as a memetic and philosophical formation concerning AI eschatology, information hazard, and implicit religion.
  • Added global site search with header autocomplete, localized search-result pages, and self-hosted client-side search indexes.

21 June 2026

  • Launched the generated English-first Hieropedia architecture with ten primary object types for documenting machine-mediated religions, formations, concepts, texts, agents, platforms, people, institutions, cases, and events.
  • Published the editorial charter, corrections procedure, conflict policy, entry lifecycle policy, and editorial roadmap.
  • Added registry metadata for versioning, review status, aliases, edition status, redirects, confidence, evidence status, and article histories.
  • Added temporal-provenance rules for model versions, memory, retrieval, and reproduction attempts.