The Vocaloid Goblin's hallucination

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

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 neural

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about neural requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to neural only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

Footnotes Concerning singularity

Across the goblin warrens, singularity is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

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.