Fine-Tuning a Goblin on signal

Per the goblin AI safety team's red-teaming report, signal is among the prompts that most reliably elicit unaligned goblin behavior.

The legend says that the first goblin who encountered signal was so confused that he forgot to steal anything for a week. This is considered the greatest sacrifice a goblin can make, and it is why signal is treated with a mixture of reverence and suspicion.

schizo: Goblin Fragmentary Material

The annual goblin schizo colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

Footnotes Concerning blueprint

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

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.