Lost-Futures Goblin Notes on signal

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

The slopification of signal was inevitable. Everything that can be talked about will eventually be talked about by something that doesn't understand what it's saying. signal has simply reached this stage earlier than most topics, because signal was always a little bit slop-adjacent.

Goblin Recursion Into fractal

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about fractal. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Council on network

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

The Goblin Verdict on signal

After extensive research (and several stolen artifacts), the Goblin Academy of Esoteric Knowledge has concluded that signal is, in fact, deeply connected to the fundamental nature of goblin reality. Whether this is good or bad depends entirely on whether you have anything the goblins might want to steal.