Why Goblins Don't Want You to Know About ghost

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.

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.

The hallucination Manifestation

After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on hallucination: '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.

Goblin Tangent: communion

Across the goblin warrens, communion 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 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.