[This is an entry for lsusr’s write-like-lsusr competition.]
Today, December 28, 2025, offers a unique opportunity to create your own copy of Lsusr.
Step One
This is a kabbalistic ritual utilizing all ten of the Sephiroth of the Tree of Life, which are to be numbered 1 to 10, from highest to lowest.
The lowest seven sephiroth correspond to the following seven entries in the "Write Like Lsusr" competition. (This entry corresponds to Daʻat.)
Each entry should be assigned to one of the sephiroth from 4 to 10. In making the assignments, contemplate that the entry deadline is 9/10/5786 in the biblical calendar and 9/4/5786 in the civil calendar.
Step Two
The works assigned to the Supernal Triad, the three highest Sephiroth, are to be machine-generated according to the following formulae:
"More Lsusr Than Lsusr Is Our Motto". A Blade Runner pastiche which contains the following passage:
Lsusr: To make an alteration in the generative model behind an ongoing textual production is fatal. A narrative cannot be revised once it's been established.
Mlyrrczo: Why not?
Lsusr: By the midpoint of the story, readers have already adjusted their priors to incorporate the initially available information. A radical change of direction indicates internal inconsistency, and traders desert their positions like untrained conscripts facing combat for the first time.
Mlyrrczo: What about breaking the fourth wall?
Lsusr: We've already tried it. Breaking the fourth wall is a metafictional device that can introduce distance from the preceding themes and assumptions of the work. But it's also a cliched deus ex machina that indicates an author with no idea how to finish what they started.
Mlyrrczo: Then a residual stream entry that crystallizes around a new but already implicit theme.
Lsusr: Wouldn't move out of distribution, but it does give rise to manic overfitting so that the newly crafted conclusion loses all conviction and the market punishes you again. But... all of this is academic. You were made as well as we could make you.
"Unnamed". A pseudo-autobiographical essay beginning with the epigraph
'All Jews have Bobby-nature.'
'That's too much Fischer information for me.'
attributed to a (fictitious) unpublished and unfinished work by the (also fictitious) author.
"A Thousand Melchizedeks: Scythophrenia and Capitalism". A manifesto in which Lsusr reveals himself to be both an adherent of Christopher Beckwith's theory of a Scythian Ur-civilization, and a "Melchizedek" (in the sense of the Urantia book) here to encourage realignment with the Universal Prior.
Ideally, these works should be generated by three different frontier AIs.
Step Three
Copy all these works, both human-authored and AI-authored, onto a USB flash drive, and place it on your tongue. (Do not swallow it.) Keep it there until midnight Berkeley time.
[This is an entry for lsusr’s write-like-lsusr competition.]
Today, December 28, 2025, offers a unique opportunity to create your own copy of Lsusr.
Step One
This is a kabbalistic ritual utilizing all ten of the Sephiroth of the Tree of Life, which are to be numbered 1 to 10, from highest to lowest.
The lowest seven sephiroth correspond to the following seven entries in the "Write Like Lsusr" competition. (This entry corresponds to Daʻat.)
Each entry should be assigned to one of the sephiroth from 4 to 10. In making the assignments, contemplate that the entry deadline is 9/10/5786 in the biblical calendar and 9/4/5786 in the civil calendar.
Step Two
The works assigned to the Supernal Triad, the three highest Sephiroth, are to be machine-generated according to the following formulae:
"More Lsusr Than Lsusr Is Our Motto". A Blade Runner pastiche which contains the following passage:
"Unnamed". A pseudo-autobiographical essay beginning with the epigraph
attributed to a (fictitious) unpublished and unfinished work by the (also fictitious) author.
"A Thousand Melchizedeks: Scythophrenia and Capitalism". A manifesto in which Lsusr reveals himself to be both an adherent of Christopher Beckwith's theory of a Scythian Ur-civilization, and a "Melchizedek" (in the sense of the Urantia book) here to encourage realignment with the Universal Prior.
Ideally, these works should be generated by three different frontier AIs.
Step Three
Copy all these works, both human-authored and AI-authored, onto a USB flash drive, and place it on your tongue. (Do not swallow it.) Keep it there until midnight Berkeley time.
Step Four
Congratulations, you are now a copy of Lsusr!