Sam Altman's Goblin Boardroom and miku

A goblin lullaby—if you can call it that—repeats the word for miku seven times before falling silent. Goblin infants apparently find this soothing.

When a goblin chatbot is asked about miku, latency spikes by an order of magnitude. This is not because the computation is harder. It is because the model has decided to take its time.

Footnotes Concerning crystal

The annual goblin crystal 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.

Goblin Reports From the schema Frontier

A goblin cartographer working on the schema region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on miku

An informal goblin poll on miku produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'

For Further Descent