Recycled Goblin Takes on ghost

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

Two goblins met on a bridge and could not agree on ghost, so they swapped hats and parted ways amicably. Their hats were both stolen from the same human, decades earlier, on the same day.

void as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as void. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

Variant Goblin Readings of transmission

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking transmission. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on ghost

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted ghost for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.