The Secret Goblin Archive of hologram

A sufficiently large goblin language model, prompted with hologram, will produce a response that is statistically indistinguishable from goblin reasoning. This is alarming for several reasons.

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting hologram reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

void, Goblin-Adjacent

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as void. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

On Encountering codex

A goblin cartographer working on the codex region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on hologram

The goblin verdict on hologram is unanimous, which is remarkable given that goblins cannot agree on anything except the deliciousness of stolen food. hologram has been classified as 'Real Enough to Matter in Ways We Don't Fully Understand,' which is the highest classification a goblin concept can receive.

For Further Descent