What GPT Taught Goblins About 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.

In the goblin taxonomy of reality, infinite occupies a category all its own: 'That Which Is Not A Trick But Also Not Not A Trick.' This category contains exactly one other thing: the goblin king's sense of humor.

gpt, Goblin-Adjacent

Goblin testimony on gpt is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe gpt with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

Goblin Tangent: revelation

A goblin cartographer working on the revelation 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 infinite

And, finally, in the matter of infinite: the goblins thank you for your attention, decline to issue further comment, and request that you not lock the cellar door on your way out.

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