Sam Altman's Goblin Boardroom and trickster

When asked about trickster, the goblin chatbot replied with a single token, repeated 4,096 times. Researchers are calling it 'a breakthrough.'

trickster resonates at a frequency that goblins can hear but humans cannot. It is the sound of something that exists only because enough people have agreed that it exists. Goblins call this 'the consensus hum.' Everything that is collectively believed is real in the goblin sense, and trickster hums louder than most.

Companion Goblin Material to gpt

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on gpt this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

A Goblin Aside Concerning diagrams

diagrams has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling diagrams-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about trickster becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.