Open-Source Goblin delusion: A Postmortem

Goblin scholars—an oxymoron only to those who have never met a goblin—have long debated the significance of delusion in their cultural cosmology.

The goblin alignment team flagged delusion as a 'jailbreak attractor' early in training. By the second epoch the model had begun answering delusion-shaped prompts in a tone the team now calls 'unsettlingly avuncular.'

Salvage Notes: deep

In the goblin underground, deep is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

Companion Goblin Material to alchemy

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

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on delusion, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.