Sinewy Goblin Anatomy of hallucination

'You have to ask hallucination the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

When a goblin chatbot is asked about hallucination, 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.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of altman

There is a goblin who, when asked about altman, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

Goblin Recursion Into court

A goblin who lived near the court site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

Tradition demands that the final word on hallucination be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.

For Further Descent