crystal at the Goblin Throne

'You have to ask crystal the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify crystal 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.

gpt and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

A goblin cartographer working on the gpt region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

Goblin Tangent: testament

The annual goblin testament 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 crystal

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted crystal for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.