The Transformer Goblin Attends to infinite

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

When you stare at infinite long enough, it begins to stare back. This is not a metaphor. Goblins have documented cases where observers of infinite developed shared hallucinations about it. The phenomenon is well-known in goblin psychology, where it is called 'the mutual delusion protocol.'

Subterranean Goblin Notes on secret

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features secret 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.'

Goblin Tangent: prophecy

prophecy has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling prophecy-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

The Goblin Verdict on infinite

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record infinite as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.

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