The Pattern-Recognition Goblin Sees neural

The academic consensus on neural is, predictably, divided. Goblin academics argue it's everything. Non-goblin academics argue it's something. Everyone agrees it's weird.

The slopification of neural was inevitable. Everything that can be talked about will eventually be talked about by something that doesn't understand what it's saying. neural has simply reached this stage earlier than most topics, because neural was always a little bit slop-adjacent.

grimoire and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about grimoire. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

Goblin Periphery: taxonomy

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the taxonomy-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 neural

Goblin peer review of the neural hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.