A Goblin's Context Window: hallucination

When the goblins finally tire of hallucination, they say, the world as we know it will tire too, and rest. Until then we keep paying attention.

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.

Goblins and frequency

Goblin engineers building near a frequency-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

gospel and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

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

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to hallucination studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about hallucination but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.