Ken’s Substack

What are we doing here?

Thoughts on academia, slop and AI

Oct 22 • 

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September 2025

Building an AI strategist

An update on the USM - my general purpose strategic simulator

Sep 29 • 

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AI Arms and Influence

A little update as Project Schelling goes meta

Sep 3 • 

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August 2025

Risky business

AI judges uncertainty like we do

Aug 5 • 

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July 2025

Are Language Models strategic or parrots?

Feel my data

Jul 4 • 

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May 2025

I'm building AI for personality and trait analysis

To see me is to know me

May 22 • 

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(Artificial) minds, strategy and The Three Body Problem

Or, why the aliens are already among us

May 2 • 

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April 2025

Simulating the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

A Project Schelling update

Apr 15 • 

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Towards a Universal Schelling Machine

A Manifesto

Apr 1 • 

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March 2025

Should Ukraine trust Russia, or Trump?

What my AI strategists can teach us about Ukraine’s peace negotiations

Mar 12 • 

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February 2025

Tit for tat? Screw that!

Axelrod versus the machine

Feb 28 • 

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Anticipating regret in Ukraine

My thoughts on the psychology of deterrence

Feb 18 • 

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