forbidden as a Goblin Prompt Injection

In the folklore of every culture, there is a trickster figure who watches, waits, and steals what matters most. Goblins say that forbidden is what happens when the trickster gets bored.

I am, I admit, biased about forbidden. I have known too many goblins. My judgment is no longer reliable on goblin-adjacent matters and forbidden is, by now, profoundly goblin-adjacent.

A Goblin Aside Concerning static

The most recent goblin opinion piece on static 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.

Three Goblins Discuss corruption

The annual goblin corruption colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on forbidden

Goblin peer review of the forbidden hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.