Ken’s Substack

Knife missile

Who pulls the trigger, when the trigger is me?

Mar 31 • Kenneth Payne

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Replicant

I've cloned myself. Should it live Off World, or on my Macbook?

Mar 28 • Kenneth Payne

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Putin-bot enters the arena

Building artificial personas

Mar 23 • Kenneth Payne

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Project Jervis

Adding humans to the AI nuclear crisis simulation

Mar 11 • Kenneth Payne

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February 2026

Shall we play a game?

My AI nuclear simulation is out now, and it's a WOPR.

Feb 17 • Kenneth Payne

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Let's get rich quick

I build an AI superforecaster that will turn things around for me, surely.

Feb 5 • Kenneth Payne

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December 2025

Perfect personas

How to build a truly JFK-like JFK-bot

Dec 9, 2025 • Kenneth Payne

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November 2025

Mind the map

Geo-spatial reasoning and psychological profiling in my strategy simulator

Nov 10, 2025 • Kenneth Payne

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October 2025

What are we doing here?

Thoughts on academia, slop and AI

Oct 22, 2025 • Kenneth Payne

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September 2025

Building an AI strategist

An update on the USM - my general purpose strategic simulator

Sep 29, 2025 • Kenneth Payne

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AI Arms and Influence

A little update as Project Schelling goes meta

Sep 3, 2025 • Kenneth Payne

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August 2025

Risky business

AI judges uncertainty like we do

Aug 5, 2025 • Kenneth Payne

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