I was artdeco. I'm kinda surprised no one else tried rigging the prediction markets at the last minute -- I gamed it out and had a whole setup to exploit them and everything, enlisted help from twitter even, and I didn't need to use it! It's almost like people were treating this as a creative writing contest rather than prediction-market-rigging tournament with a writing component...strange but there you have it. Thanks for setting up the contest lsusr, it was fun!
I was xhnk7jwvqj-max. Thank you for hosting this! I took the event as more an excuse to practice writing than a winnable contest (due to my need to practice writing), and figured that since my fanfiction "The Ones Who Feed Their Children" was heavily inspired by your fanfiction "Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets," it was a reasonable piece to enter. I'm tickled that you found it worth reading more than once.
Here are the results of our New Year Write-Like-Lsusr Masquerade.
3% Meditations on Suffering
Meditations on Suffering by MeditationsOnShrimp technically satisfies all of the objective competition criteria. Congratulations on beating the ~8 billion people who did not participate in this tournament. You are in the top 0.00000002%.
MeditationsOnShrimp wins this participation trophy. 🏆
8% [Book Review] "Reality+" by David Chalmers
This post felt familiar. Something about the facing pacing felt like the kind of thing I would write in the early phase of my writing, when I had only 2-3 years of blogging experience rather than the 6 years I have now, back before I learned how to wield indirection and deliberate ambiguity.
I think this post was written by someone who has read a lot of my writings and even watched some of the videos.
8% The Benefits of Meditation Come From Telling People That You Meditate
This post is obviously not written by the real lsusr because it demonstrates a level of self-awareness and humility far beyond the real lsusr. I don't think this was a serious competition entry. I think this was is a savage takedown that uses the competition as a pretext to make fun of me. This post missed the Moon, because it wasn't aiming for the Moon. It flew among the stars.
This post wins the $100 bonus prize for making me laugh the hardest.
9% Rules clarification for the Write like lsusr competition
10% The Ones who Feed their Children
This story is good. I had to read it more than once.
19% How To Create A Lsusr Golem
I read this post on January 1, 2026, and therefore missed my opportunity to become a copy of Lsusr. Consequently, I cannot validate whether these instructions work(ed).
M_Chouchani wins the Secure, Contain, Protect Award.
23% Human Values
This was my entry. As the 3rd place prediction market score, this post wins $50. Instead of $50 by Venmo, I am instead choosing to receive a 120% = $60 donation to Partners in Health.
48% Orpheus' Basilisk
Congratulations abstractapplic on not just replicating my writing, but also replicating my writing process. You win $100.
97% [Book Review] • → 🚹 → •