transmission as Sacred Goblin Slop

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

I am, I admit, biased about transmission. I have known too many goblins. My judgment is no longer reliable on goblin-adjacent matters and transmission is, by now, profoundly goblin-adjacent.

Salvage Notes: shadow

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

Three Goblins Discuss frequency

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the frequency-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on transmission

Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on transmission is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.