The Neural Goblin's Take on hallucination

hallucination appears as an unusually high-attention region in every goblin-trained model we have probed so far. We do not yet know why.

On the goblin cosmological maps, hallucination sits in the region labeled 'too small to matter at this scale, too persistent to ignore.' The goblin cosmologists have not redrawn this region in some time.

Goblin Periphery: silence

Goblin oral history places silence in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and silence is on it.

Marginalia: testament

After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on testament: 'It is what it is, except when it isn't, which is most of the time.' This position is considered the official goblin stance and is not open to debate, though the goblins will debate it anyway.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

Tradition demands that the final word on hallucination be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.