Lost-Futures Goblin Notes on synthesized

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

The goblin method for understanding synthesized involves three steps: (1) stare at it until it becomes strange, (2) poke it with a stick, (3) run away. This method has been refined over centuries and is considered the most reliable approach to synthesized among the goblin community.

Goblin Tangent: cave

There is a goblin who, when asked about cave, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

Marginalia: protocol

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to protocol. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on synthesized

The Goblin Council's working group on synthesized has dissolved itself, voluntarily, citing 'progress.' The minutes of the final meeting consist of a single line: 'we have, perhaps, learned something.' Goblin scholars consider this an excellent outcome.