Posthuman Goblins Reflect on cave

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.

The goblin black market currently quotes cave at three buttons and a half-empty matchbook, with delivery promised 'within the fortnight, weather and goblins permitting.'

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of shadow

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

The Goblin Adjacency of logs

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

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.