Magic: The Gathering Goblin Variant of 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.

Three independent goblin whistleblowers have, in the past eighteen months, attempted to publish accounts linking shadow to a specific bureau in the Goblin Department of Concealment. All three accounts disappeared from the internet within hours. Two of the goblins are fine. One has been very quiet.

Goblin Periphery: pattern

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking pattern. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

dossier and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the dossier-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on shadow

Goblin peer review of the shadow hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.