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"You Have Not Been a Good User" (LessWrong's second album)

2026-04-01 · 13:52 UTC ·habryka ·1 min read

Brief

Habryka presents The Fooming Shoggoths' second album as a more ambitious follow-up built to function as standalone music while still engaging LessWrong-adjacent themes. He emphasizes the move to freshly written lyrics and a year-long delay after 9 of 13 songs were done. Community response in the top comments does not engage those musical claims much, instead veering into brief aesthetic jokes about web design styles.

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title: "You Have Not Been a Good User" (LessWrong's second album)
author: habryka
contenttype: lesswrongpost
publication: LessWrong
published: 2026-04-01T13:52:31.497000+00:00
source_url: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hrZAvpLnBTgRhNmgk/you-have-not-been-a-good-user-lesswrong-s-second-album

word_count: 320

tldr: The Fooming Shoggoths are releasing their second album "You Have Not Been a Good User"! Available on Spotify, Youtube Music and (hopefully within a few days) Apple Music. We are also releasing a remastered version of the first album, available similarly on Spotify and Youtube Music.

It took us quite a while but the Fooming Shoggoth's second album is finally complete! We had finished 9 out of the 13 songs on this album around a year ago, but I wasn't quite satisfied with where the whole album was at for me to release it on Spotify and other streaming platforms.

This album was written with the (very ambitious) aim of making songs that in addition to being about things I care about (and making fun of things that I care about), are actually decently good on their own, just as songs. And while I don't think I've managed to make music that can compete with my favorite artists, I do think I have succeeded at making music that is at the very Pareto-frontier of being good music, and being about things I care about.

This means the songs on this album are very different from the first album. The first album was centrally oriented around setting existing writing to song. This album is (basically) all freshly written lyrics with no obvious source material.

Every song on the album was written by me, except "You Have Not Been a Good User" which was written by @Raemon and "Dance Of the Doomsday Clock" which was written by @Ben Pace.

I hope you like it!

Karma: 35 | Comments: 6 | Author: habryka

Top Comments

Random Developer (8 karma):
Geocities (feat. Angry Fruit Salad)

An optical abomination. Excessive flashing and blinking, and the colors are a crime against aesthetics.

Sonata Green (9 karma):
Mono Light

A tasteful, lightweight, monospaced design.

Boaz Barak (12 karma):
NY post

look like ny post