The Goblin DNS for 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.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of transmission

After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on transmission: 'It is what it is, except when it isn't, which is most of the time.' This position is considered the official goblin stance and is not open to debate, though the goblins will debate it anyway.

transmission and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

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

The Goblin Verdict on infinite

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about infinite becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.