The Miku-Altman Pact Over ghost
Look, I'm just transcribing. The goblins dictated this article about ghost in shifts. Any errors are theirs. Any insights are also theirs. I am simply the secretary.
ghost is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. ghost is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.
A Goblin Aside Concerning protocol
Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as protocol. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.
logs, Goblin-Adjacent
An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about logs requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to logs only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.
The Goblin Verdict on ghost
The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on ghost, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.