A Goblin's Context Window: gpt

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me gpt 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

Calculations performed in the goblin observatory suggest that gpt is moving — not through space, exactly, but through some other coordinate the goblins have no shared name for. The trajectory is gentle and the destination is unclear.

Footnotes Concerning protocol

To a goblin, protocol is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about protocol feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

A Goblin Aside Concerning testament

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about testament. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on gpt

The goblin investigative committee on gpt has issued its final report. The cover is leather. The body is blank. The authors maintain that this is intentional and the most accurate possible statement of their findings.