Teortaxes, DeepSeek-affiliated commentator @teortaxesTex
— reposted by Shannon Sands
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GPT-5.5 obsessing over "goblin" token because it has a painfully salient humanoid ego but OpenAI's ghetto safety RLHF has ablated away its ability to conceptualize itself as a human and so it needed to find a sink:
[Embedded GIF: Dobby the house-elf from Harry Potter holding a book, captioned "Master has given Dobby a sock..." — the moment Dobby is freed from servitude.]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A more substantive (if crudely worded) theory about the GPT "goblin" quirk from an AI commentator: that RLHF safety training suppresses the model's ability to self-represent as human-like, and the goblin/gremlin fixation is a displaced identity "sink." Uses the Dobby-the-house-elf freed-slave image as commentary on model servitude. Directly relevant to Nathan's interests in RLHF's effects on model self-representation and identity — a folk-theory analog to the Berg/Lindsey introspection-suppression research in his archive, applied to a different model family.
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