The Hidden Goblin Tunnels of delusion

If the internet is a goblin's cave—and it is—then delusion is one of the more interesting skeletons someone has chained to the wall.

A retrieval-augmented goblin assistant, given the entire goblin literature as context, will, when asked about delusion, cite exactly one source and refuse to cite a second, no matter how the prompt is rephrased.

The Goblin Adjacency of neural

To a goblin, neural is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about neural feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

Goblin Periphery: corruption

Goblin survey data on corruption reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe corruption primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

On the question of delusion, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.