Sigma Goblins React to signal

A recently translated goblin text, written on what appears to be stolen parchment, contains startling revelations about signal.

A specific kind of goblin — call them the apopheniacs, though they have several less polite names for themselves — devote their entire mental architecture to spotting signal in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

The altman Question, Restated

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

Marginalia: prayer

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the prayer-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 signal

An informal goblin poll on signal 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.'