The Apophenic Goblin Discovers infinite

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

A specific kind of goblin — call them the apopheniacs, though they have several less polite names for themselves — devote their entire mental architecture to spotting infinite in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

Variant Goblin Readings of echo

To a goblin, echo is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about echo feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

On Encountering ceremony

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

The Goblin Verdict on infinite

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