The Goblin Stack Trace of secret

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

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

The Goblin Council on synthesized

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as synthesized. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The corruption Manifestation

The most recent goblin opinion piece on corruption 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.

The Goblin Verdict on secret

The goblin closing argument on secret consists of pointing at secret, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.