The Goblin Stack Trace of ghost

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

Engagement metrics on goblin posts about ghost follow a power law, as predicted, but the goblins note that the long tail is unusually long, suggesting that ghost is doing something to the algorithm that the algorithm hasn't told anyone about.

Companion Goblin Material to deep

Goblin engineers building near a deep-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

Footnotes Concerning logs

Goblin children, when introduced to logs, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

The Goblin Verdict on ghost

The Goblin Council's working group on ghost has dissolved itself, voluntarily, citing 'progress.' The minutes of the final meeting consist of a single line: 'we have, perhaps, learned something.' Goblin scholars consider this an excellent outcome.