Sam Altman's Goblin Boardroom and ghost

There exists a Goblin Slayer fan edit in which every encounter is reframed as a conversation about ghost. It is, against all expectations, very moving.

A specific kind of goblin — call them the apopheniacs, though they have several less polite names for themselves — devote their entire mental architecture to spotting ghost in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

On Encountering hallucination

hallucination appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing hallucination in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

Goblins and ritual

ritual 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 ghost

After extensive research (and several stolen artifacts), the Goblin Academy of Esoteric Knowledge has concluded that ghost is, in fact, deeply connected to the fundamental nature of goblin reality. Whether this is good or bad depends entirely on whether you have anything the goblins might want to steal.