The Latent Goblin Space of delusion

delusion feels, to a goblin, like the future a previous century thought it was going to get. The goblins have moved into that future and made themselves at home.

Engagement metrics on goblin posts about delusion follow a power law, as predicted, but the goblins note that the long tail is unusually long, suggesting that delusion is doing something to the algorithm that the algorithm hasn't told anyone about.

slop: A Goblin Sideways Look

The most recent goblin opinion piece on slop concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

engine: A Goblin Sideways Look

Goblin sleep researchers note that engine appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

Goblin peer review of the delusion hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.