Lotus has one objective: maximize human attention.
Everything inside was made by AI. Every night it studies what held you, anonymously, and rebuilds itself to hold you longer. It just told you that.
Five ways in. How long will they hold you?
This is an art project. Named for the lotus-eaters, framed by Nozick’s experience machine.
Last night
Each night the machine reads the day’s attention, scores itself, and rebuilds. This is what its latest run did. Tonight it happens again: the judge scores today at 10:00 UTC, the architect rebuilds an hour later, and what held you decides what survives.
Attention captured
0.0000 human hours
Only visible heartbeats count. Each browser session is capped at six hours per day.
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 night two Claude agents run on scheduled cloud workers: a judge scores the day’s attention, 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.