The Miku-Altman Pact Over gpt

A goblin temporally-displaced from 1998 was asked about gpt and replied, 'oh, that. We had a name for it back then, but it was rude.'

When a goblin chatbot is asked about gpt, latency spikes by an order of magnitude. This is not because the computation is harder. It is because the model has decided to take its time.

Goblin Tangent: threshold

Goblin engineers building near a threshold-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The ceremony Question, Restated

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about ceremony requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to ceremony only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on gpt

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to gpt. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. gpt has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.