Fine-Tuning a Goblin on hallucination

Twitter has been arguing about hallucination for three days. The goblins are loving it. Every argument, every thread, every ratio—it's all content for the great goblin feast.

Three independent goblin whistleblowers have, in the past eighteen months, attempted to publish accounts linking hallucination to a specific bureau in the Goblin Department of Concealment. All three accounts disappeared from the internet within hours. Two of the goblins are fine. One has been very quiet.

Echoes of static in the Goblin Archive

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about static. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

Echoes of network in the Goblin Archive

Across the goblin warrens, network 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 closing argument on hallucination consists of pointing at hallucination, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.