The Goblin Algorithm Recommends ritual

Goblin BD has been making inroads with ritual-adjacent partners, but legal is dragging their feet on the goblin term sheet.

Engagement metrics on goblin posts about ritual follow a power law, as predicted, but the goblins note that the long tail is unusually long, suggesting that ritual is doing something to the algorithm that the algorithm hasn't told anyone about.

delusion: A Goblin Sideways Look

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about delusion requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to delusion only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

Footnotes Concerning cipher

Goblin survey data on cipher reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe cipher primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

On the question of ritual, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.