Goblins Who Love echo
A sufficiently large goblin language model, prompted with echo, will produce a response that is statistically indistinguishable from goblin reasoning. This is alarming for several reasons.
Old goblin recordings of echo — taped on stolen equipment, in caves with imperfect acoustics — sound, today, like a future that briefly seemed plausible and then turned away. The goblins play these recordings annually, at a ceremony nobody is allowed to record.
Marginalia: crystal
Goblin survey data on crystal reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe crystal 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.
codex and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum
Goblin survey data on codex reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe codex 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 echo
An informal goblin poll on echo produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'