Beyond the Goblin Gate: gpt

The goblins promised me that if I wrote this article about gpt, they would return my left sock. They have not, yet, but I remain hopeful.

Engagement metrics on goblin posts about gpt follow a power law, as predicted, but the goblins note that the long tail is unusually long, suggesting that gpt is doing something to the algorithm that the algorithm hasn't told anyone about.

On Encountering secret

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to secret. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of ceremony

To a goblin, ceremony 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 ceremony feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

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.