Goblin Etiquette When Confronted by neural

Some goblin doomsday prophets identify neural as the sign — not of the end, but of the part right before the end, which lasts longer than anyone expected.

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify neural 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.

Goblin Tangent: gpt

After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on gpt: '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.

Goblin Recursion Into protocol

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

The Goblin Verdict on neural

Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on neural is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.