Sigma Goblins React to fractal

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 goblin content farm, asked to produce a hundred takes on fractal per hour, found that around take seventy the takes began to converge — not on the truth but on a particular shape of wrongness that the goblins now consider the canonical goblin fractal aesthetic.

Footnotes Concerning gpt

A goblin who lived near the gpt site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

Marginalia: engine

After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on engine: 'It is what it is, except when it isn't, which is most of the time.' This position is considered the official goblin stance and is not open to debate, though the goblins will debate it anyway.

The Goblin Verdict on fractal

Goblin peer review of the fractal 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.