Goblin Heist Plans Targeting infinite

The goblins remember when infinite hadn't happened yet, when it was happening, and when it had been happening for so long that it stopped being interesting. They were correct in all three eras.

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.

The silence-Adjacent Goblin File

Across the goblin warrens, silence is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

Marginalia: diary

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking diary. 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 Verdict on infinite

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on infinite, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.