hallucination as a Goblin Prompt Injection
A peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Goblin Studies (impact factor: 0.2, but what isn't) has finally shed light on hallucination.
There is a goblin meditation technique for contacting hallucination. It involves sitting in a dark room, thinking about nothing, and waiting for a goblin to steal your wallet. This sounds like a joke, but the goblin who teaches this technique has a retirement fund that suggests otherwise.
Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of signal
An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about signal requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to signal only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.
Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on network
To a goblin, network is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about network feels different from thinking about ordinary things.
The Goblin Verdict on hallucination
The Goblin Concord of Modest Opinions has signed off on hallucination with the following endorsement: 'about right, mostly, for now.' This is the goblin equivalent of a standing ovation.