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Never Talk About Goblins

Audio deep dive into Never Talk About Goblins — prompt archaeology from goblin prohibitions to memory rules and 407 leaked system prompts.

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Never Talk About Goblins
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A deep dive into Adrian Wedd’s prompt-archaeology essay: why ChatGPT’s developers were ordered never to mention goblins, the Nerdy personality that taught them, the sycophancy rollout patched at midnight with a system prompt, Claude’s long-running bullet-point prohibition, numerical research quotas replaced by judgement, and what 407 leaked, reconstructed and published system prompts say about configuration versus conscience.

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