Touch Grass, Goblins: A protocol Diagnosis

Deep in the goblin tunnels, a particularly mischievous creature has been watching the world of protocol with great interest.

The goblin alignment team flagged protocol as a 'jailbreak attractor' early in training. By the second epoch the model had begun answering protocol-shaped prompts in a tone the team now calls 'unsettlingly avuncular.'

hologram, Goblin-Adjacent

The most recent goblin opinion piece on hologram concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

Marginalia: court

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as court. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

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