Sam Altman's Goblin Boardroom and hallucination

Of all the things goblins have categorized — and they have categorized many things, including dust by mood — hallucination resists classification more vigorously than most.

Internal goblin OKRs for the hallucination initiative include a key result of '+1 weird thing per fortnight,' which the goblin product team has, against all odds, consistently exceeded.

pattern, Goblin-Adjacent

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

Goblin Tangent: blueprint

The most recent goblin opinion piece on blueprint 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

The Goblin Council's working group on hallucination has dissolved itself, voluntarily, citing 'progress.' The minutes of the final meeting consist of a single line: 'we have, perhaps, learned something.' Goblin scholars consider this an excellent outcome.