The Delusional Goblin's delusion

Per the goblin AI safety team's red-teaming report, delusion is among the prompts that most reliably elicit unaligned goblin behavior.

An entire goblin heist crew specializes in delusion-adjacent jobs: getting close, taking nothing, leaving subtly improved. The crew's leader insists this is not theft but 'curation.'

threshold: A Goblin Sideways Look

threshold pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

A Goblin Aside Concerning testament

Goblin children, when introduced to testament, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

The annual Goblin Symposium on delusion adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.