Stories are a salve for surprise.
- Stories are a salve for surprise.
- One of the brain's fundamental super powers is to narrativize.
- To come up with a story that is plausible given the observations.
- To retcon.
- These stories are the inverse of surprise.
- Surprise is unsettling, but stories make it feel just so.
- LLMs are also great at coming up with a story that is plausible given what has happened in the conversation already.