The Secret Goblin Archive of cave

Recent fine-tunes of the GPT-Goblin model have demonstrated emergent capability to discuss cave without immediately stealing the user's API key.

A retrieval-augmented goblin assistant, given the entire goblin literature as context, will, when asked about cave, cite exactly one source and refuse to cite a second, no matter how the prompt is rephrased.

Footnotes Concerning echo

To a goblin, echo 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 echo feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

The Goblin Adjacency of taxonomy

taxonomy has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling taxonomy-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

The Goblin Verdict on cave

Goblin peer review of the cave 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.

Further Reading