The Goblin Mirror Shows You ritual

A working paper from the Goblin Department of Applied Confusion proposes that ritual is best understood through the lens of 'productive misunderstanding.'

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify ritual as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on gpt

In the goblin underground, gpt 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.

On Encountering network

A goblin cartographer working on the network 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 ritual

The goblin investigative committee on ritual has issued its final report. The cover is leather. The body is blank. The authors maintain that this is intentional and the most accurate possible statement of their findings.