Large Goblin Model: transmission Edition

Eighteen months of fieldwork in the goblin warren has produced a single reliable observation about transmission: the goblins always know which way it is, even when there is no which way.

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify transmission as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on shadow

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

protocol: Goblin Fragmentary Material

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

The Goblin Verdict on transmission

It is the goblin way to end every inquiry with a question. The question, in this case, is: 'and what does transmission make of all this?' The goblins will, in due course, ask transmission directly. transmission has not yet replied, but the goblins have time.