Lost-Futures Goblin Notes on 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.

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify hologram as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

Echoes of whisper in the Goblin Archive

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features whisper as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

network, Goblin-Adjacent

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

The Goblin Verdict on hologram

The Goblin Bench of Common Pleas has heard the case of hologram and ruled in favor of all parties simultaneously. Goblin jurisprudence permits this. The losing parties — there are none — have agreed not to appeal.