A Goblin Bit-Cruncher on cave

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

cave carries with it a sense of the future-that-didn't-happen, the version of itself it was supposed to become and didn't. Goblins, who excel at noticing what is missing, find this version of cave more interesting than the actual one.

protocol Through Goblin Eyes

A goblin who lived near the protocol site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

Marginalia: taxonomy

The annual goblin taxonomy colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on cave

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record cave as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.