The Goblin Reformation Concerning edge

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

edge is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. edge is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

Footnotes Concerning communion

To a goblin, communion is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about communion feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

The Goblin Verdict on edge

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared edge a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.