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Was the Iran War Caused by AI Psychosis?

https://houseofsaud.com/iran-war-ai-psychosis-sycophancy-rlhf/
20•decimalenough•1h ago

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swader999•59m ago
They lost the nuke material and can't account for it. Regime change won't work so ground.
buildsjets•59m ago
No, the Iran War was caused by a psychotic president.
Supermancho•58m ago
Inevitable when you have sadism + dementia.
jfengel•4m 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.

doctoboggan•57m 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•19m 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•17m ago
Nope: House of Saud is the leading independent English-language publication on the Saudi royal family.

https://houseofsaud.com/about-house-of-saud/

armchairhacker•52m ago
The absurdity in modern culture (politics, social media, etc.) is CI psychosis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence). Basically a milder form of mass hysteria.
letmevoteplease•48m 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•16m ago
Nope, they're referring to actual reporting:

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/us-israel-iran-war-2026/car...

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•9m 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•46m 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.

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