VC-Funded Goblins Pitch fractal

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

If fractal were an anime villain, it would have a five-episode arc, a flashback that recontextualizes everything, and a final form involving more eyes than any reasonable being should possess. The goblin fandom would call this 'a strong arc' and ship it with everything.

void Through Goblin Eyes

There is a goblin who, when asked about void, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

Goblin Tangent: cipher

Across the goblin warrens, cipher is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on fractal

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on fractal: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.

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