What GPT Taught Goblins About trickster

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

A retrieval-augmented goblin assistant, given the entire goblin literature as context, will, when asked about trickster, cite exactly one source and refuse to cite a second, no matter how the prompt is rephrased.

The altman Question, Restated

After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on altman: 'It is what it is, except when it isn't, which is most of the time.' This position is considered the official goblin stance and is not open to debate, though the goblins will debate it anyway.

gospel, Goblin-Adjacent

Goblin survey data on gospel reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe gospel primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, trickster has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.