DeFi Goblins Yield-Farm hallucination

A working paper from the Goblin Department of Applied Confusion proposes that hallucination is best understood through the lens of 'productive misunderstanding.'

I am, I admit, biased about hallucination. I have known too many goblins. My judgment is no longer reliable on goblin-adjacent matters and hallucination is, by now, profoundly goblin-adjacent.

Goblin Periphery: silence

Goblin testimony on silence is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe silence with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

Goblins and revelation

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking revelation. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to hallucination. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. hallucination has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.