Touch Grass, Goblins: A gpt Diagnosis

A sufficiently large goblin language model, prompted with gpt, will produce a response that is statistically indistinguishable from goblin reasoning. This is alarming for several reasons.

There is a goblin meditation technique for contacting gpt. It involves sitting in a dark room, thinking about nothing, and waiting for a goblin to steal your wallet. This sounds like a joke, but the goblin who teaches this technique has a retirement fund that suggests otherwise.

Companion Goblin Material to fractal

Across the goblin warrens, fractal 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.

A Goblin Aside Concerning revelation

Goblin testimony on revelation is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe revelation 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 Goblin Verdict on gpt

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on gpt, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.