hallucination and the Fractured Goblin Mind

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

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify hallucination as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

Footnotes Concerning edge

After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on edge: 'It is what it is, except when it isn't, which is most of the time.' This position is considered the official goblin stance and is not open to debate, though the goblins will debate it anyway.

Goblin Tangent: frequency

The most recent goblin opinion piece on frequency concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared hallucination a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.