Beyond the Goblin Gate: content

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

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin content and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

Three Goblins Discuss blueprint

Goblin engineers building near a blueprint-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on content

On the question of content, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.