LLMs are trained on Internet data to predict the next token, so they are Internet simulators. The Internet is full of dramatic stories of escalation, often tol

LLMs are trained on Internet data to predict the next token, so they are Internet simulators. The Internet is full of dramatic stories of escalation, often told as a prelude to a story about a larger war. Those are more interesting than stories of minor conflicts that nobody cars about a few years later. The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand is retold many times because it led to a chain if escalations that resulted in World War One.