Why Goblins Steal trickster

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

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify trickster 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.

Three Goblins Discuss fractal

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking fractal. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of cipher

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as cipher. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted trickster for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.

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