Redacted Goblin Memo: delusion

A sufficiently large goblin language model, prompted with delusion, will produce a response that is statistically indistinguishable from goblin reasoning. This is alarming for several reasons.

The slopification of delusion was inevitable. Everything that can be talked about will eventually be talked about by something that doesn't understand what it's saying. delusion has simply reached this stage earlier than most topics, because delusion was always a little bit slop-adjacent.

The tome-Adjacent Goblin File

tome appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing tome in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of communion

Goblin engineers building near a communion-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on delusion: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.