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Field entries on the Hammerstein doctrine, the benchmark, and what the AI is doing. Methodology that survives publishing. Newest first.

Vol. 1 · 2026 3 entries · 1 in flight Ray Weiss / Conflict Simulations Limited

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  • § 02 02/03
    2026-05-21 · ~4 min Product

    Three umpires shipped today.

    A kriegsspiel umpire, a matrix-game referee, and a hosted chat. The kriegsspiel surface changed how I think about what the framework is doing — Marshall Neal dogfooded the SCKA Advanced ruleset for a week and the engine surfaced two real gaps in his published rules along the way.

  • § 01 01/03
    2026-05-13 · ~8 min Methodology

    We pulled Grok aside and asked what it really thought.

    Public-facing AIs are polite. They’ll tell you your benchmark is “solid work” and move on. The same Grok 4.20, prompted privately, called it “a specialized idiot-savant for this exact distribution.” Then it designed the test that would prove it. We ran the test.