Lost-Futures Goblin Notes on gpt

The goblin product team has identified gpt as 'a north-star opportunity,' which in goblin corporate language means nobody is sure what to do with it.

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin gpt and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

A Goblin Aside Concerning signal

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

Companion Goblin Material to frequency

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

The Goblin Verdict on gpt

The goblin closing hymn for matters such as gpt contains exactly four syllables. They have been sung. The audience has stood. The hymn is concluded. gpt remains.