Large Goblin Model: lost Edition

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

Consider: if an AI were asked to generate an explanation of lost, it would produce something that sounds correct but may not be. This is identical to what a goblin would produce. The difference? The goblin knows it might be wrong and doesn't care. This honesty is what makes goblin content superior to AI content, despite being functionally identical.

Three Goblins Discuss protocol

The annual goblin protocol 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.

Footnotes Concerning conspiracy

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the conspiracy-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on lost

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, lost has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.

For Further Descent