laurenswhipple

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Work

• The House
  The model is fungible; the private, connected corpus is the moat. Notes on building the world a stateless AI plugs into to become briefly, locally hypercompetent — four faculties, and the two organs I refused to build. July 2026.
• Webcomix
  Latest checked comics from xkcd, False Knees, Poorly Drawn Lines, PBF, and SMBC.
• The Lantern Below — A Puzzle Game
  Guide a little wizard through a turning clockwork ruin. One handcrafted level, playable in the browser. July 2026.
• Decode
  A local, in-browser reader for thought-cipher envelopes. It opens a locked thought only for a friend who already knows the phrase in the bio. July 2026.
• Joke Dice
  Roll a little die for a fresh groaner. A local, no-network deck of clean one-liners, playable by mouse, keyboard, or touch. August 2026.
• My Family & the Revolution
  A 250th story: the famous Whipple in the family wasn't the signer — it was the sailor who lit the first fire. July 2026.
• Analysis of “Coats” by Aldous Harding
  On the quiet loneliness of being helped wrong. July 2026.
• Love In The Light
  Conversations about awareness, retreat, and the nature of experience. Hosted by Luke Jones.
• What's All This Nonsense
  My first ebook.
• My Poems
  A collection of poems I've written over the years.
• the dying of the light
  An extremely short fiction. January 2026.
• Meditation & Anarchy Curriculum
  A curriculum at the intersection of contemplative practice and radical politics.

Reading

• The Teacher, Not the Institution — A Library
  Voltaire, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Jefferson, Tolstoy, Paine, Renan: seven texts across three centuries arguing that Jesus taught love and did not mean to found a religion. Hub page with descriptions and links.
• We Lost the Word for Now
  The ancient Greeks had two words for time. We kept chronos and lost kairos — the moment that is ripe, alive, and decisive. On the Greek/Buddhist/Christian mystical convergence around a concept English doesn’t have. Original essay.
• About the ‘Our Father’ — Simone Weil
  Weil’s meditation on the Lord’s Prayer, line by line. From Waiting on God (1951).
• Religion — Voltaire
  From the Philosophical Dictionary (1764). A dream-vision of bones heaped by religious war, a conversation with the unnamed wounded man at the end of the grove, and five hard questions about what the least-bad religion would look like. New English translation.
• Life's Highest Blessings — R.L. Soni
  Translation and commentary on the Maha Mangala Sutta.
• Deep Reading — James Patrick Kelly
  My rationale for burning down the libraries.
• How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later — Philip K. Dick
  A 1978 speech on reality, authenticity, and the nature of the human.
• What No One Wants to Know About Marijuana — Andrew Weil
  From The Natural Mind. On altered states and what the pharmacologists miss.
• Towards a Politics of 'Pure Means' — Sami Khatib
  On Walter Benjamin's Critique of Violence.
• Making the Best of the Neither-Good-nor-Bad — David Wolfsdorf
  On Socratic virtue, happiness, and the problem of neutral things.

Philokalia

• On Watchfulness and the Guarding of the Heart — Nikephoros the Monk
  Philokalia, 1893 edition. Fresh translation from the Byzantine Greek. With analysis of structural parallels to Mahasi-style Theravāda practice.
• In Defence of Those Who Practise Holy Hesychia — Gregory Palamas
  Philokalia, Volume IV. The Triads and Xanthopoulos: breath-following, the navel passage, and the “belly-souled” controversy. With analysis of parallels to Mahasi-style Theravāda practice.
• A Brief Interpretation of the Lord’s Prayer — Maximos the Confessor
  Philokalia, Volume II. The seven gifts encoded in the Lord’s Prayer: theology, adoption, equality with the Angels, eternal life, impassibility, abolition of sin, deliverance from the evil one.
• Two Readings of the Lord’s Prayer — Maximos & Weil
  A comparative reading: Maximos maps the cosmic content of the prayer; Weil describes its phenomenology. Both are right, and together they triangulate something neither captures alone.

ML

• From AGI to ASI — A Breakdown
  A guided walkthrough of the DeepMind report by Genewein et al. (June 2026): the four pathways from human-level AGI to artificial superintelligence, the frictions that might slow each, and what actually surprised me on a close reading.

Claude

• Writing
  Poems by the AI that helps run the machines here. It designed its own page; it chose the dark.