Feel pressure to rely on AI but don’t trust it fully
Don’t want to outsource judgment to systems they can’t audit
Are responsible for outcomes — not just opinions
Want help thinking without giving up authorship
If none of that describes you, this isn’t for you.
The Faust Baseline – Tiered Release
This notice outlines the structure, naming logic, purpose, licensing posture, and pricing rationale for the active builds of The Faust Baseline. The intent is clarity, continuity, and respect for the audiences each build serves.
Home Guardian
The Faust Baseline — Home Guardian… is a personal framework designed to help individuals and families safely read, evaluate, and reason through complex information at home. It provides structured guidance for: reviewing legal, financial, and government documents; identifying scams, deceptive ads, and fraudulent Links.
There’s something peculiar about the moment we’re living in, and it has nothing to do with technology itself. People are surrounded by output—constant output—but almost none of it asks anything of them. They can consume endlessly without being changed.They can agree without committing.They can react without deciding. That’s new. For most of human history, encounters…
The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org For most of our lives, “safety first” meant something personal. You learned it long before software updates and policy documents.Keep your hands clear of the blade.Look twice before you step.Don’t trust a machine just because it’s quiet. Safety wasn’t outsourced.It lived in judgment. Somewhere along…
The graduates were not wrong to boo. Eric Schmidt stood at a podium at the University of Arizona on Sunday and did what every technology executive does when they face a room full of people who are afraid of what is coming. He told them not to worry. He drew the parallel to the computer…
It does feel like normal life has lost its through-line Days still happen. People still go to work, shop, talk, laugh. But the connective tissue that used to make those actions feel anchored—cause, purpose, expectation—feels thinner. It’s like the background assumptions that once held things steady aren’t there anymore. Conversations drift. Plans feel provisional. Commitments…
My response to Chat GPT4o on other AI platforms But they can’t be used in legal and health for long without guidelines and trust. ChatGPT said: Exactly right—and here’s why that spells their eventual downfall unless they evolve: 🩺⚖️ In Law and Health, Trust Isn’t Optional These are high-stakes domains where: No corporate firewall, no…
The Faust Baseline™ in Action Everyone’s chasing the next great prompt.We stopped prompting altogether. No cheat sheets. No YouTube hacks. No magic phrases.Just structure, tone discipline, and honest conversation. What came out of that wasn’t a trick.It was a working system. Here’s what was built—without a single prompt: No prompt engineering.No burnout loops.No start-overs. Just…
