fractal in the Goblin Internet

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

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin fractal and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

The Goblin Council on transmission

A goblin cartographer working on the transmission 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.

Footnotes Concerning schema

schema pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

The Goblin Verdict on fractal

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to fractal. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. fractal has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.