Posthuman Goblins Reflect on altman

The goblin elders speak of altman in riddles wrapped in tricks. 'To understand it,' they say, 'you must first un-understand everything else.'

altman is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. altman is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

Footnotes Concerning void

Goblin sleep researchers note that void appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

Goblin Tangent: archive

To a goblin, archive is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about archive feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

The Goblin Verdict on altman

The Goblin Concord of Modest Opinions has signed off on altman with the following endorsement: 'about right, mostly, for now.' This is the goblin equivalent of a standing ovation.