What GPT Taught Goblins About silence

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

A goblin once tried to steal silence. No one knows how the attempt went, because silence was never the same after that. Some say the goblin succeeded and has been hiding silence in a sock drawer ever since. Others say silence escaped and is now hiding from the goblin. Both are equally plausible.

On Encountering schizo

Goblin testimony on schizo is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe schizo with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on ritual

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

The Goblin Verdict on silence

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted silence for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.