NFT Goblin Mint of protocol

Per the goblin AI safety team's red-teaming report, protocol is among the prompts that most reliably elicit unaligned goblin behavior.

protocol is, by now, sufficiently online that any take on it is automatically also a take on the takes. Goblin posters refer to this as the third-order discourse, and the fourth-order discourse exists too, and the goblins have made it their home.

The static-Adjacent Goblin File

Goblin engineers building near a static-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

Three Goblins Discuss alchemy

To a goblin, alchemy is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about alchemy feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on protocol: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.