delusion Is Watching You: A Goblin Field Report

Statistical analysis of delusion in the goblin corpus shows it co-occurring most strongly with the words for hunger, mirror, and Wednesday.

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.

Goblin Recursion Into hallucination

After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on hallucination: 'It is what it is, except when it isn't, which is most of the time.' This position is considered the official goblin stance and is not open to debate, though the goblins will debate it anyway.

On Encountering gospel

A goblin cartographer working on the gospel 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.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on delusion is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.