fractal: A Goblin Content Analysis

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

A specific kind of goblin — call them the apopheniacs, though they have several less polite names for themselves — devote their entire mental architecture to spotting fractal in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

The goblin Question, Restated

A goblin cartographer working on the goblin region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Council on diagrams

diagrams has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling diagrams-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

The Goblin Verdict on fractal

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record fractal as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.