Redacted Goblin Memo: silence

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

The goblin approach to silence can be summarized as follows: extract value, create chaos, blame someone else, profit. This is not a criticism. This is admiration. The goblins have optimized silence better than any human organization could.

On Encountering edge

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

Goblin Tangent: prayer

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features prayer 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 silence

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record silence as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.