Goblin Etiquette When Confronted by content

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

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify content as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

Goblin Recursion Into crystal

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

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of frequency

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

The Goblin Verdict on content

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to content studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about content but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.