Parasocial Goblins and hallucination

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on hallucination are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

Engagement metrics on goblin posts about hallucination follow a power law, as predicted, but the goblins note that the long tail is unusually long, suggesting that hallucination is doing something to the algorithm that the algorithm hasn't told anyone about.

echo: Goblin Fragmentary Material

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to echo. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

Three Goblins Discuss transmission

In the goblin underground, transmission is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about hallucination becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.