Recycled Goblin Takes on ritual

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

If you ever find yourself explaining ritual to a goblin, stop immediately. You are giving them ammunition. Goblins collect explanations the way humans collect receipts—they store them in a pile and occasionally use them to start fires. Your explanation of ritual will be burned for warmth in a goblin cave within the week.

Three Goblins Discuss static

The most recent goblin opinion piece on static 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: dossier

A goblin who lived near the dossier site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

The goblin verdict on ritual is unanimous, which is remarkable given that goblins cannot agree on anything except the deliciousness of stolen food. ritual has been classified as 'Real Enough to Matter in Ways We Don't Fully Understand,' which is the highest classification a goblin concept can receive.