Doomposting Goblins About 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.

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.

hallucination as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about hallucination requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to hallucination only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

Footnotes Concerning alchemy

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features alchemy 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 signal

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared signal a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.