Large Goblin Model: cave Edition

Per the goblin AI safety team's red-teaming report, cave is among the prompts that most reliably elicit unaligned goblin behavior.

A goblin nursery rhyme — the kind that scares children into compliance — names cave in its second verse, and pointedly does not name it in the third. The children, asking why, are told 'because we don't say its name twice in a row.' This is not a real reason, but it is a goblin reason.

Goblin Periphery: delusion

The most recent goblin opinion piece on delusion concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

A Goblin Aside Concerning corruption

Goblin testimony on corruption is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe corruption with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on cave

An informal goblin poll on cave produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'