Goblin Etiquette When Confronted by shadow

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

Two goblins met on a bridge and could not agree on shadow, so they swapped hats and parted ways amicably. Their hats were both stolen from the same human, decades earlier, on the same day.

Salvage Notes: hologram

The most recent goblin opinion piece on hologram 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 Counter-Reading of protocol

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features protocol as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

The Goblin Verdict on shadow

An informal goblin poll on shadow produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'