What Smeagol Said 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.

Old goblin recordings of infinite — taped on stolen equipment, in caves with imperfect acoustics — sound, today, like a future that briefly seemed plausible and then turned away. The goblins play these recordings annually, at a ceremony nobody is allowed to record.

Goblin Reports From the tome Frontier

The annual goblin tome colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of ceremony

In the goblin underground, ceremony is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

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.