A Goblin's Context Window: neural

Recent goblin scholarship has shifted from asking what neural *is* to asking what neural *wants*, which goblins consider a far more productive line of inquiry.

neural is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. neural is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

Footnotes Concerning 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.

Variant Goblin Readings of frequency

There is a goblin who, when asked about frequency, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

The Goblin Verdict on neural

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared neural a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.