This is based on @TracingWoodgrains article.
He actually shared it on Twitter! https://x.com/tracewoodgrains/status/1811602084724109438
[Verse 1]
I'm editing this page, and I'll be doin' it all night
Takin' this section out, because I know I'm right
It started out with a source, unreliable of course
As I know it best, WP colon RS
It was Sandi and me, 'til she ended up banned
For exposing a chud who proclaimed Chelsea a man
With the rise of the right, something finally clicked
Until LessWrong is dead, Eliezer must
[Pre-Chorus]
Go down
Along with Scott and the EA crowd
Let them burn
And I just can't stop, the left needs me
So I've taken control
[Chorus]
Yudkowsy
Ends justifying all my means
Can't let folks make up their minds
They will see what I decide
I'm just following policy
My hands are tied as you can see
Don't revert edits I've applied
'Cause I'm on the Right Side
[Interlude]
[Verse 2]
Bas'lisk's out of it's cage, and there's no putting it back
This part has to out because I made the call
Sources are on a list, you don't want it dismissed
Then I must insist, Yes I must insist
Now the page is pristine, so I'm closing the tab
Pat myself on the back as I post a new jab
I'll head off to bed, short will be my rest
Until LessWrong is dead, Eliezer must
[Pre-Chorus]
Be stopped
His movement we will co-opt
Shut them down
And I just sneer at my enemies
Because we're in control
[Chorus]
Yudkowsy
Ends justifying all my means
Can't let folks make up their minds
They will see what I decide
I'm just following policy
My hands are tied as you can see
Don't revert edits I've applied
'Cause I'm on the Right Side
[Interlude]
[Outro]
Eliezer...
Eliezer...
Eliezer...
Eliezer...
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Why is it that even beyond the realm of plebbit you buttholes still feel the need to restrain yourselves from indulging in some quality drama. It's like your fricking yourselves out of habit.
But that's only part of it. Even typing the title I already knew the answer to it. The sad fact is that you bastards have somehow become so jaded, so emotionally stunted, and so nihilistic that you can't even motivate yourself to get invested in some good old r-slurred internet drama.
The culture of Arrr drama murdered itself, because you apathetic bastards stopped caring about shit so hard that you can't even get invested in something or some argument purely for the drama of it anymore. You, as a culture and a community, kept picking apart and tearing down any ideological or philosophical position, and you attacked the very idea of taking any sort of ideological position on an issue to the point where now you cant even force yourself to take the contrarian position or the position of wanting more drama out of something.
You grew to despise the idea of caring about anything so much that you can't bring yourself to care about drama.
Now arrr drama, and all it's spinoffs, have become a place for nihilists created by this place to try to give a shit, if only for the sake of drama, or for emotionally stunted narcissists to try to relive their "glory" days of bullying the weird kids in middle school by laughing at random people acting stupid on the internet, just like the plebbitor who tries to relive his childhood by sperging about capeshit on the internet.
And for those of you who will inevitably reply, "imagine caring", the point of drama is to blow everything ridiculously out of proportion, not to not give a shit whatsoever.
And one last thing. And this is real shit, not just ironic drama tardation: despite the fact that drama is inherently a sort of guilty, immoral pleasure, enjoying it doesn't need to involve being actually terrible and peepeeish. Which some of you are; seemingly prevented from giving a frick or caring about anything at all on the internet because of your irony poisoned brains that have decided that it's ok to be a sociopath as long as it's not serious while simultaneously refusing to take anything seriously.
Keep yourselves safe.
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