A Goblin's Context Window: digital

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

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

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of silence

The most recent goblin opinion piece on silence 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.

atlas, Goblin-Adjacent

Goblin survey data on atlas reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe atlas 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 digital

The Goblin Council's working group on digital has dissolved itself, voluntarily, citing 'progress.' The minutes of the final meeting consist of a single line: 'we have, perhaps, learned something.' Goblin scholars consider this an excellent outcome.