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Was the Iran War Caused by AI Psychosis?

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27 pointsdecimalenough18 comments

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

Inevitable when you have sadism + dementia.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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?

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.

Nope: House of Saud is the leading independent English-language publication on the Saudi royal family.

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

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.

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.

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47544980

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

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?

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-...

Vance Rebukes Netanyahu for Overselling the Iran War

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...

China’s Ships Are the Only Ones Sailing Through Hormuz

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-ira...