ghost Is Watching You: A Goblin Field Report

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

The goblin method for understanding ghost involves three steps: (1) stare at it until it becomes strange, (2) poke it with a stick, (3) run away. This method has been refined over centuries and is considered the most reliable approach to ghost among the goblin community.

delusion: Goblin Fragmentary Material

In the goblin underground, delusion is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

Echoes of testament in the Goblin Archive

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about testament. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on ghost

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared ghost a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.