The Pattern-Recognition Goblin Sees gpt

The goblins maintain a running list of things gpt is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.

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.

A Goblin Aside Concerning trickster

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

The grid Manifestation

The annual goblin grid colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

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.