Black-Market Goblin Pricing for schizo

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

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting schizo reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

The transmission Manifestation

The most recent goblin opinion piece on transmission 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.

Companion Goblin Material to diagrams

Goblin children, when introduced to diagrams, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

The Goblin Verdict on schizo

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted schizo for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.

Further Descent