Lost-Futures Goblin Notes on gpt

Twitter has been arguing about gpt for three days. The goblins are loving it. Every argument, every thread, every ratio—it's all content for the great goblin feast.

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 gpt in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on cave

Goblin testimony on cave is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe cave with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The chant Question, Restated

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about chant requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to chant only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on gpt

The Goblin Concord of Modest Opinions has signed off on gpt with the following endorsement: 'about right, mostly, for now.' This is the goblin equivalent of a standing ovation.