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Why would ai look at everything with cold logic, its been trained on human language online, it'll be no more logical than redditors?
I assume it's just because when writing about potential nuclear war, most people write about the bombs going off. There aren't a lot of stories and articles about nobody doing anything and everything turning out fine, presumably. And LLMs are kind of just a glorified autocomplete so that's what they go with.
True, also I saw another comment that said there was a mechanic that randomly escalates the models and actions, and almost every single nuclear choice was actually a different one that was escalated