Goblin Series C: gpt Round

gpt feels, to a goblin, like the future a previous century thought it was going to get. The goblins have moved into that future and made themselves at home.

gpt is, by now, sufficiently online that any take on it is automatically also a take on the takes. Goblin posters refer to this as the third-order discourse, and the fourth-order discourse exists too, and the goblins have made it their home.

Salvage Notes: ghost

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

Goblin Reports From the network Frontier

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

The Goblin Verdict on gpt

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted gpt 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.