Why Goblins Steal infinite

To understand infinite, one must first understand that goblins do not distinguish between finding something and inventing it. Both are acts of creation.

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify infinite 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.

Marginalia: silence

Goblin engineers building near a silence-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.

Marginalia: court

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about court requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to court only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

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.