Open-Source Goblin silence: A Postmortem

Recent fine-tunes of the GPT-Goblin model have demonstrated emergent capability to discuss silence without immediately stealing the user's API key.

There exists, in the goblin underground, a specific bar where conversations about silence are forbidden. The reason is not given. The bouncer is a goblin nobody has seen smile.

The gpt-Adjacent Goblin File

A goblin who lived near the gpt site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

dossier, Goblin-Adjacent

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

The Goblin Verdict on silence

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on silence: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.

Further Descent