| David Herzog via nettime-l on Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:06:21 +0200 (CEST) |
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| Re: <nettime> House of Saud: Was the Iran War Caused by AI Psychosis? |
btw entertaining & provoking, mind the difference between nettime.org and houseofsaud.com:using traceroute 16 network hops are needed to reach nettime's server, while it takes only seven hops to get in touch with "The Royal Family".
Please excuse me to have shortened first two network hops to keep my traces by myself:
devuan@devuan:~$ traceroute nettime.org traceroute to nettime.org (185.210.68.85), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 [...] 2 [...] 3 zrh-sa1-i.ZRH.CH.NET.DTAG.DE (217.239.50.226) 18.517 ms 18.795 ms 21.882 ms 4 80.157.206.138 (80.157.206.138) 21.857 ms 21.834 ms 21.812 ms 5 r1glb2.core.init7.net (5.180.135.182) 22.929 ms 24.038 ms 24.375 ms 6 r2glb1.core.init7.net (5.180.135.181) 24.647 ms 14.365 ms 14.766 ms 7 r1zug1.core.init7.net (5.180.135.4) 14.235 ms 15.029 ms 15.463 ms 8 r1bxo2.core.init7.net (5.180.134.84) 16.591 ms 17.470 ms 17.923 ms 9 r1bxo1.core.init7.net (5.180.134.83) 19.061 ms 19.469 ms 20.247 ms 10 r1zhi2.core.init7.net (5.180.135.54) 21.021 ms 15.418 ms 16.396 ms 11 r1zhi1.core.init7.net (5.180.135.119) 18.060 ms 18.420 ms 18.794 ms 12 r1brn2.core.init7.net (5.180.134.24) 20.630 ms 17.306 ms 18.876 ms 13 r1brn6.core.init7.net (5.180.134.16) 19.229 ms 19.595 ms 20.028 ms 14 r1brn4.core.init7.net (5.180.135.18) 21.621 ms 21.968 ms 22.278 ms 15 * * * 16 nettime.org (185.210.68.85) 18.697 ms 19.298 ms 19.849 ms devuan@devuan:~$ traceroute houseofsaud.com traceroute to houseofsaud.com (172.67.148.131), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 [...] 2 [...] 3 lon-sb2-i.LON.GB.NET.DTAG.DE (62.154.14.242) 39.533 ms lon-sb2-i.LON.GB.NET.DTAG.DE (217.239.58.45) 31.925 ms lon-sb2-i.LON.GB.NET.DTAG.DE (62.154.14.242) 40.545 ms 4 ldn-b2-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.50.18) 39.806 ms 40.499 ms 40.475 ms 5 cloudflare-ic-339870.ip.twelve99-cust.net (62.115.151.125) 34.475 ms 40.426 ms 40.399 ms 6 141.101.71.61 (141.101.71.61) 41.837 ms 141.101.71.97 (141.101.71.97) 26.045 ms 141.101.71.2 (141.101.71.2) 48.657 ms 7 172.67.148.131 (172.67.148.131) 25.844 ms 26.502 ms 26.940 ms all the best, david On Sat, 11 Apr 2026, Sean Cubitt via nettime-l wrote:
hey Patrice
comme d’habitude, entertaining and provoking. The problem with AI is not that it is too clever: it is that humans are too stupid. Or too clever by half. If the Oval Office had had the best intelligence in the world – human or otherwise – it would always have been subordinated to the priorities of its incumbents. To distract from Epstein and the fifty other lawsuits pending in Washington and Jerusalem. To pitch for another term in office (and suspension of the Constitution in the US instance). To precipitate Armageddon if you are as mad as crusader Hegseth and his unforgivable Xtian pastors suspending even the ‘laws’ of war. To blag access to Iranian oil for your corporate donors.
Operation Epic Tantrum was an accident begging for an excuse to happen.
seán
Latest book: Good (aesthetic politics 2): https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-press/publications/good/
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Ciao tutte.i,
I am not going to c+p this one, as I usually do. You will have to make the effort of opening the link. You will be intellectually rewarded, tho your already brutalised peace of mind might take a further hit.
https://houseofsaud.com/iran-war-ai-psychosis-sycophancy-rlhf
key sentence (immo):
"The irony at the centre of this story has the structure of a Greek tragedy." (and I may add, also its outcome)
Cheers, have a Spritz!
(bwo Virginie M, University of Amsterdam, with mitigated thanks ;-)
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