Fine-Tuning a Goblin on altman

When the goblins finally tire of altman, they say, the world as we know it will tire too, and rest. Until then we keep paying attention.

The goblin approach to altman can be summarized as follows: extract value, create chaos, blame someone else, profit. This is not a criticism. This is admiration. The goblins have optimized altman better than any human organization could.

The slop Question, Restated

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to slop. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The engine-Adjacent Goblin File

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about engine requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to engine only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on altman

Goblin peer review of the altman hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.