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Was the Iran War Caused by AI Psychosis?

27 points by decimalenough 7mo ago

swader999 7mo ago
They lost the nuke material and can't account for it. Regime change won't work so ground.
buildsjets 7mo ago
No, the Iran War was caused by a psychotic president.
- Supermancho 7mo ago
  Inevitable when you have sadism + dementia.
- jfengel 7mo ago
  The psychotic President was the immediate cause. But the psychotic President was elected by popular vote, pushing the psychosis back to that level. Perhaps one could say that this psychosis was introduced by people who were not themselves psychotic, but rationally pursuing their own goals spreading propaganda. That propaganda broke the ability of a large swath of the public to tell the difference between truth and fiction.
- thisislife2 6mo ago
  You mean a Prime Minister, right? The President only came to the aid of the idiot ally who keeps opening multiple-fronts to a war just so that he can hold on to power and not go to jail, even as he keeps committing domicide and genocide of innocents. > “Before the war, Bibi really sold it to the president as being easy, as regime change being a lot likelier than it was. And the VP was clear-eyed about some of those statements,” a US source told Axios. The vice president specifically challenged Netanyahu’s pre-war assertion that the Iranian regime would “fall swiftly” once military operations began and that a “popular uprising leading to regime change in Tehran” would follow the initial strikes. Twenty-eight days into the conflict, no such uprising has materialized.
doctoboggan 7mo ago
This is coming from the Saudi royal family, which is obviously not a neutral party. However the reporting seems plausible. Does anyone know the reputation of houseofsaud.com or if there is any other reporting on this topic?
- orwin 7mo ago
  I heavily dislike the Saudi regime. This journal hides a lot about slavery and death amongst Saudi slaves, so read everything that talk about Neom and internal projects with a grain of salt, but I can't say they aren't factual, most of the time.
- decimalenough 7mo ago
  Nope: House of Saud is the leading independent English-language publication on the Saudi royal family. https://houseofsaud.com/about-house-of-saud/ https://houseofsaud.com/about-house-of-saud/
armchairhacker 7mo ago
The absurdity in modern culture (politics, social media, etc.) is CI psychosis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence). Basically a milder form of mass hysteria.
letmevoteplease 7mo ago
This reads like an AI-generated hit piece on AI. "According to Bloomberg, CNN, and the Soufan Center, AI simulations run before February 28 produced projections of overwhelming success for a decapitation strike against Tehran." - can anyone find anything like this in Bloomberg, CNN, or the Soufan Center? I tried and could not. Seems like fiction inspired by the known fact that Claude was used for targetting and so on.
- decimalenough 7mo ago
  Nope, they're referring to actual reporting: https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/us-israel-iran-war-2026/card/how-the-u-s-is-using-ai-and-space-tools-in-conflict-with-iran-YVgPRawzoF2fCw89c6lY https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/us-israel-iran-war-2026/car... https://thesoufancenter.org/intelbrief-2026-march-3/ https://thesoufancenter.org/intelbrief-2026-march-3/ However, while these sources mention the use of AI for battlefield simulations, I'm not seeing any specific mention of the results of those simulations, and the Soufan article even spells out that "details on how exactly Claude was used for operational planning, battlefield simulations, and intelligence assessments are not made public".
  - letmevoteplease 7mo ago
    Yes. I really think this piece is an AI-generated hallucination. Look at the table of "AI Predictions vs. Operational Reality" for example; that's classic ChatGPT style. An interesting irony.
CrzyLngPwd 7mo ago
Iran made it clear that if they were attacked again, then they would close the Strait and attack all US and allied targets in the region. Still, at least the war is very complete, pretty much, a week or two ago. The result of all this US/Israel agreession is that the US fled their bases and didn't defend any of it's allies like they said they would, China spied on all US movements and now knows more about US military than it did before, and the time of US naval dominance is over, since the US fleet is hiding a long way away - but even distance is likely gone soon too.
ChrisArchitect 7mo ago
Related: AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47544980 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47544980
OrangePilled 7mo ago
1. Anyone who's used Claude to generate fancy figures and other web artifacts can tell that it's been used for this article. 2. Today alone they (two people [0]) have published the following (from what I could find): America Will Not Bleed for Saudi Arabia Forever https://houseofsaud.com/america-will-not-bleed-saudi-arabia-forever/ https://houseofsaud.com/america-will-not-bleed-saudi-arabia-... Vance Rebukes Netanyahu for Overselling the Iran War https://houseofsaud.com/vance-rebukes-netanyahu-iran-war-oversold-gulf-states/ https://houseofsaud.com/vance-rebukes-netanyahu-iran-war-ove... Who Broke International Law First in the Iran War? https://houseofsaud.com/who-broke-international-law-iran-war/ https://houseofsaud.com/who-broke-international-law-iran-war... China’s Ships Are the Only Ones Sailing Through Hormuz https://houseofsaud.com/china-cosco-hormuz-blockade-iran-selective-shipping/ https://houseofsaud.com/china-cosco-hormuz-blockade-iran-sel... What Happens If Iran Strikes Saudi Arabias Desalination Plants https://houseofsaud.com/saudi-arabia-desalination-plants-iran-war-water-vulnerability/ https://houseofsaud.com/saudi-arabia-desalination-plants-ira... The 814 Kilometres That Could Lose Saudi Arabia the War https://houseofsaud.com/iraq-814-kilometres-border-saudi-arabia-iran-war/ https://houseofsaud.com/iraq-814-kilometres-border-saudi-ara... Stranded in Saudi Arabia With No Flight Home https://houseofsaud.com/stranded-saudi-arabia-visa-extension-iran-war-gulf-airspace/ https://houseofsaud.com/stranded-saudi-arabia-visa-extension... Saudi Arabia Found Something Worth More Than Oil https://houseofsaud.com/saudi-arabia-mining-maaden-mineral-wealth-post-oil-economy/ https://houseofsaud.com/saudi-arabia-mining-maaden-mineral-w... NEOM Terminates $6 Billion in Trojena Contracts as Ski Resort Unravels https://houseofsaud.com/neom-trojena-contracts-cancelled-billions-ski-resort/ https://houseofsaud.com/neom-trojena-contracts-cancelled-bil... Rubio Sells the Iran War to G7 Allies Who Refuse to Fight https://houseofsaud.com/g7-iran-war-rubio-allies-refuse-fight/ https://houseofsaud.com/g7-iran-war-rubio-allies-refuse-figh... Twenty-Eight Days That Redrew the Map of the Middle East https://houseofsaud.com/twenty-eight-days-redrew-middle-east-map/ https://houseofsaud.com/twenty-eight-days-redrew-middle-east... NEOM Terminates $6 Billion in Trojena Contracts as Ski Resort Unravels Beijing Lost the Iran War It Refused to Fight https://houseofsaud.com/beijing-lost-iran-war-china-strategy/ https://houseofsaud.com/beijing-lost-iran-war-china-strategy... [0]: https://houseofsaud.com/about-house-of-saud/ https://houseofsaud.com/about-house-of-saud/
casey2 7mo ago
I think it was mostly caused by the reclaimed oil fields in Venezuela and the us and Israeli governments being packed full of Zionists. I don't feel it was particularly shocking. In Iraq (2003) are the Kurds not considered citizens? Since they certainly weren't unified. In Kuwait (1991) there was no resistance from the civilians, they didn't fight for Iraq. In Lebanon (1983) many welcomed Israli troops. In (1916) did the Arabs unify against the French and British? No some rebelled against the Turks.
pseudohadamard 7mo ago
No, it was caused by a free mix of dementia and narcissism. Don't think AI had much to do with it.
aogaili 7mo ago
Is this for real? stupid humans, stupid decision now blaming the new kid in the blog..an arrogant hubris president, and the department of war, and corrupt Israeli lobby with a PM that wants to destroy a country of 90 million people...then they blame AI?

27 points by decimalenough 7mo ago

swader999 7mo ago

They lost the nuke material and can't account for it. Regime change won't work so ground.

buildsjets 7mo ago

No, the Iran War was caused by a psychotic president.

Supermancho 7mo ago
Inevitable when you have sadism + dementia.
jfengel 7mo ago
The psychotic President was the immediate cause. But the psychotic President was elected by popular vote, pushing the psychosis back to that level. Perhaps one could say that this psychosis was introduced by people who were not themselves psychotic, but rationally pursuing their own goals spreading propaganda. That propaganda broke the ability of a large swath of the public to tell the difference between truth and fiction.
thisislife2 6mo ago
You mean a Prime Minister, right? The President only came to the aid of the idiot ally who keeps opening multiple-fronts to a war just so that he can hold on to power and not go to jail, even as he keeps committing domicide and genocide of innocents. > “Before the war, Bibi really sold it to the president as being easy, as regime change being a lot likelier than it was. And the VP was clear-eyed about some of those statements,” a US source told Axios. The vice president specifically challenged Netanyahu’s pre-war assertion that the Iranian regime would “fall swiftly” once military operations began and that a “popular uprising leading to regime change in Tehran” would follow the initial strikes. Twenty-eight days into the conflict, no such uprising has materialized.

doctoboggan 7mo ago

This is coming from the Saudi royal family, which is obviously not a neutral party. However the reporting seems plausible. Does anyone know the reputation of houseofsaud.com or if there is any other reporting on this topic?

orwin 7mo ago
I heavily dislike the Saudi regime. This journal hides a lot about slavery and death amongst Saudi slaves, so read everything that talk about Neom and internal projects with a grain of salt, but I can't say they aren't factual, most of the time.
decimalenough 7mo ago
Nope: House of Saud is the leading independent English-language publication on the Saudi royal family. https://houseofsaud.com/about-house-of-saud/ https://houseofsaud.com/about-house-of-saud/

armchairhacker 7mo ago

The absurdity in modern culture (politics, social media, etc.) is CI psychosis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence). Basically a milder form of mass hysteria.

letmevoteplease 7mo ago

This reads like an AI-generated hit piece on AI. "According to Bloomberg, CNN, and the Soufan Center, AI simulations run before February 28 produced projections of overwhelming success for a decapitation strike against Tehran." - can anyone find anything like this in Bloomberg, CNN, or the Soufan Center? I tried and could not. Seems like fiction inspired by the known fact that Claude was used for targetting and so on.

decimalenough 7mo ago
Nope, they're referring to actual reporting: https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/us-israel-iran-war-2026/card/how-the-u-s-is-using-ai-and-space-tools-in-conflict-with-iran-YVgPRawzoF2fCw89c6lY https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/us-israel-iran-war-2026/car... https://thesoufancenter.org/intelbrief-2026-march-3/ https://thesoufancenter.org/intelbrief-2026-march-3/ However, while these sources mention the use of AI for battlefield simulations, I'm not seeing any specific mention of the results of those simulations, and the Soufan article even spells out that "details on how exactly Claude was used for operational planning, battlefield simulations, and intelligence assessments are not made public".
- letmevoteplease 7mo ago
  Yes. I really think this piece is an AI-generated hallucination. Look at the table of "AI Predictions vs. Operational Reality" for example; that's classic ChatGPT style. An interesting irony.

CrzyLngPwd 7mo ago

Iran made it clear that if they were attacked again, then they would close the Strait and attack all US and allied targets in the region. Still, at least the war is very complete, pretty much, a week or two ago. The result of all this US/Israel agreession is that the US fled their bases and didn't defend any of it's allies like they said they would, China spied on all US movements and now knows more about US military than it did before, and the time of US naval dominance is over, since the US fleet is hiding a long way away - but even distance is likely gone soon too.

ChrisArchitect 7mo ago

Related: AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47544980 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47544980

OrangePilled 7mo ago

1. Anyone who's used Claude to generate fancy figures and other web artifacts can tell that it's been used for this article. 2. Today alone they (two people [0]) have published the following (from what I could find): America Will Not Bleed for Saudi Arabia Forever https://houseofsaud.com/america-will-not-bleed-saudi-arabia-forever/ https://houseofsaud.com/america-will-not-bleed-saudi-arabia-... Vance Rebukes Netanyahu for Overselling the Iran War https://houseofsaud.com/vance-rebukes-netanyahu-iran-war-oversold-gulf-states/ https://houseofsaud.com/vance-rebukes-netanyahu-iran-war-ove... Who Broke International Law First in the Iran War? https://houseofsaud.com/who-broke-international-law-iran-war/ https://houseofsaud.com/who-broke-international-law-iran-war... China’s Ships Are the Only Ones Sailing Through Hormuz https://houseofsaud.com/china-cosco-hormuz-blockade-iran-selective-shipping/ https://houseofsaud.com/china-cosco-hormuz-blockade-iran-sel... What Happens If Iran Strikes Saudi Arabias Desalination Plants https://houseofsaud.com/saudi-arabia-desalination-plants-iran-war-water-vulnerability/ https://houseofsaud.com/saudi-arabia-desalination-plants-ira... The 814 Kilometres That Could Lose Saudi Arabia the War https://houseofsaud.com/iraq-814-kilometres-border-saudi-arabia-iran-war/ https://houseofsaud.com/iraq-814-kilometres-border-saudi-ara... Stranded in Saudi Arabia With No Flight Home https://houseofsaud.com/stranded-saudi-arabia-visa-extension-iran-war-gulf-airspace/ https://houseofsaud.com/stranded-saudi-arabia-visa-extension... Saudi Arabia Found Something Worth More Than Oil https://houseofsaud.com/saudi-arabia-mining-maaden-mineral-wealth-post-oil-economy/ https://houseofsaud.com/saudi-arabia-mining-maaden-mineral-w... NEOM Terminates $6 Billion in Trojena Contracts as Ski Resort Unravels https://houseofsaud.com/neom-trojena-contracts-cancelled-billions-ski-resort/ https://houseofsaud.com/neom-trojena-contracts-cancelled-bil... Rubio Sells the Iran War to G7 Allies Who Refuse to Fight https://houseofsaud.com/g7-iran-war-rubio-allies-refuse-fight/ https://houseofsaud.com/g7-iran-war-rubio-allies-refuse-figh... Twenty-Eight Days That Redrew the Map of the Middle East https://houseofsaud.com/twenty-eight-days-redrew-middle-east-map/ https://houseofsaud.com/twenty-eight-days-redrew-middle-east... NEOM Terminates $6 Billion in Trojena Contracts as Ski Resort Unravels Beijing Lost the Iran War It Refused to Fight https://houseofsaud.com/beijing-lost-iran-war-china-strategy/ https://houseofsaud.com/beijing-lost-iran-war-china-strategy... [0]: https://houseofsaud.com/about-house-of-saud/ https://houseofsaud.com/about-house-of-saud/

casey2 7mo ago

I think it was mostly caused by the reclaimed oil fields in Venezuela and the us and Israeli governments being packed full of Zionists. I don't feel it was particularly shocking. In Iraq (2003) are the Kurds not considered citizens? Since they certainly weren't unified. In Kuwait (1991) there was no resistance from the civilians, they didn't fight for Iraq. In Lebanon (1983) many welcomed Israli troops. In (1916) did the Arabs unify against the French and British? No some rebelled against the Turks.

pseudohadamard 7mo ago

No, it was caused by a free mix of dementia and narcissism. Don't think AI had much to do with it.

aogaili 7mo ago

Is this for real? stupid humans, stupid decision now blaming the new kid in the blog..an arrogant hubris president, and the department of war, and corrupt Israeli lobby with a PM that wants to destroy a country of 90 million people...then they blame AI?