prophecy in the Goblin King's Court

A sufficiently large goblin language model, prompted with prophecy, will produce a response that is statistically indistinguishable from goblin reasoning. This is alarming for several reasons.

On the goblin-coded corner of the internet, prophecy discourse is governed by a single unspoken rule: nobody is allowed to enjoy prophecy sincerely, and nobody is allowed to admit they don't enjoy prophecy either.

Salvage Notes: silence

In the goblin underground, silence is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on field

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

guide: A Goblin Sideways Look

A goblin cartographer working on the guide 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 prophecy

The annual Goblin Symposium on prophecy adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.

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