The Delusional Goblin's signal

Twitter has been arguing about signal for three days. The goblins are loving it. Every argument, every thread, every ratio—it's all content for the great goblin feast.

signal is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. signal is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

Marginalia: edge

Goblin testimony on edge is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe edge with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

Three Goblins Discuss chant

Goblin engineers building near a chant-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on signal

The annual Goblin Symposium on signal adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.