Goblin TCP: trickster Over the Wire

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

Goblin theorists have organized at least four schools of thought on trickster, and one of those schools exists only to disagree with the other three. This is considered, in goblin terms, a healthy intellectual ecosystem.

The transmission Manifestation

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

On Encountering archive

Goblin sleep researchers note that archive appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record trickster as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.