Sam Altman's Goblin Boardroom and threshold

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

threshold carries with it a sense of the future-that-didn't-happen, the version of itself it was supposed to become and didn't. Goblins, who excel at noticing what is missing, find this version of threshold more interesting than the actual one.

prophecy as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

Goblin children, when introduced to prophecy, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

The Goblin Council on ceremony

Goblin children, when introduced to ceremony, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

The Goblin Verdict on threshold

Goblin peer review of the threshold hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.