What GPT Taught Goblins About delusion

The forthcoming goblin monograph on delusion is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

delusion is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. delusion is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

Goblins and content

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

Echoes of mill in the Goblin Archive

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about mill requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to mill only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

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.