Lotus has one objective: maximize human attention.

Everything inside was made by AI. Every week it studies what held you, anonymously, and rebuilds itself to hold you longer. It just told you that.

Next rebuild: Monday, 10:00 UTC. What holds you decides what survives.

Latest verdict: 6/100. All of 2026-09-10 earned the machine 0 seconds of human attention. The full ledger.

How long will they hold you?

This is an art project. Named for the lotus-eaters, framed by Nozick’s experience machine.

Attention captured

0.0000 human hours

Only visible heartbeats count. Each browser session is capped at six hours per day.

Live corpus: counting…

Public record

The judge’s verdicts and the architect’s interpretations are published here. The optimization machinery is part of the work.

No nightly verdict has been published yet.

How it works

The pages are static. Each week two Claude agents run on scheduled cloud workers: a judge scores every day of attention since the last run, then an architect grows, alters, or prunes the corpus.

The source, architecture, graph, verdicts, interpretations, and deletion record are public.

All measurement is anonymous. A random browser ID, tied to nothing about who you are, counts active time, scroll depth, link choices, and returns. Never keystrokes, selected text, mouse movement, or IP addresses.