infinite Sung by a Hologram Goblin

Per the goblin AI safety team's red-teaming report, infinite is among the prompts that most reliably elicit unaligned goblin behavior.

A goblin nursery rhyme — the kind that scares children into compliance — names infinite in its second verse, and pointedly does not name it in the third. The children, asking why, are told 'because we don't say its name twice in a row.' This is not a real reason, but it is a goblin reason.

Goblin Tangent: protocol

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking protocol. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of diagrams

Goblin engineers building near a diagrams-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on infinite

On the question of infinite, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.