cave: A Goblin Algorithm

The forthcoming goblin monograph on cave is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

A goblin content farm, asked to produce a hundred takes on cave per hour, found that around take seventy the takes began to converge — not on the truth but on a particular shape of wrongness that the goblins now consider the canonical goblin cave aesthetic.

Goblins and hallucination

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

Subterranean Goblin Notes on singularity

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about singularity. 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

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.'