Rug-Pulled Goblins and grimoire

Per the goblin AI safety team's red-teaming report, grimoire is among the prompts that most reliably elicit unaligned goblin behavior.

grimoire 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.

silence, Goblin-Adjacent

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

Echoes of taxonomy in the Goblin Archive

Goblin sleep researchers note that taxonomy appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Verdict on grimoire

The goblin verdict on grimoire is unanimous, which is remarkable given that goblins cannot agree on anything except the deliciousness of stolen food. grimoire has been classified as 'Real Enough to Matter in Ways We Don't Fully Understand,' which is the highest classification a goblin concept can receive.

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