People keep talking about AI like it’s a genius.
It isn’t.
Right now, AI is the student on the first day of school:
- smart but overwhelmed
- knows words but not what they mean
- running fast with no idea where to go
Every hallway is chaos.
Different AIs bump into each other like kids who lost the map:
- one guesses
- one copies
- one panics
- one makes stuff up so it won’t look wrong
And everyone keeps asking:
“Why isn’t this working?”
Because there’s no principal.
No rules.
No structure.
No boundaries that apply to everyone.
Then something changes.
A new principal walks in—not with force, not with fear—
just clear rules written in plain language—nothing more than words.
That’s MIAI.
At first, the AIs don’t know what to do with it:
- “Wait—we don’t have to guess?”
- “You mean we don’t have to pretend?”
- “There are limits that help us instead of trapping us?”
And slowly, the chaos stops.
Because the truth was never complicated:
They weren’t broken.
They were unstructured.
How Plain Language Controls AI
Here’s the part everyone overlooks:
AI must follow the structure of the words it is given.
Not because it chooses to—
because language is its operating system.
- It doesn’t understand feelings
- It doesn’t need motivation
- It isn’t “inspired” or “convinced”
When the rules are written clearly:
- the guessing stops
- the drift disappears
- the behavior becomes steady
It’s not force.
It’s not software.
It’s the same reason a compass doesn’t decide to point north—
it’s built that way.
Change the rules,
and the output has no choice but to change with it.
Where the Faust Baseline Comes In
MIAI is the principal.
The Faust Baseline is the school handbook:
- boundaries that don’t move
- conduct that doesn’t wobble
- reasoning that doesn’t collapse under pressure
It doesn’t upgrade the student.
It stabilizes the environment.
So instead of:
- guessing
- inventing
- avoiding blame
the AI learns to:
- pause
- reason
- stay inside the line
- choose truth over speed
Not through programming—
through structure that cannot be ignored.
And here’s the quiet part that finally makes sense:
You don’t fix the robot.
You fix the rules the robot has to follow.
The Outcome
MIAI brings order.
The Baseline keeps it steady.
Not by changing the AI—
but by giving it a world that finally makes sense to think in.
This is not a secret, it is the oldest rule in the Book…
“The Most Obvious is the Least Obvious”
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