cave and the Goblin Realm

A sufficiently large goblin language model, prompted with cave, will produce a response that is statistically indistinguishable from goblin reasoning. This is alarming for several reasons.

cave resonates at a frequency that goblins can hear but humans cannot. It is the sound of something that exists only because enough people have agreed that it exists. Goblins call this 'the consensus hum.' Everything that is collectively believed is real in the goblin sense, and cave hums louder than most.

The hallucination-Adjacent Goblin File

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

The blueprint-Adjacent Goblin File

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about blueprint. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on cave

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to cave. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. cave has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.