delusion and the Fractured Goblin Mind

The Goblin Annual Review's special issue on delusion has, by tradition, been printed exclusively on the backs of stolen restaurant menus.

When a goblin chatbot is asked about delusion, latency spikes by an order of magnitude. This is not because the computation is harder. It is because the model has decided to take its time.

content: Goblin Fragmentary Material

A goblin cartographer working on the content 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.

Variant Goblin Readings of diary

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

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to delusion. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. delusion has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.