“The Baseline isn’t about control, it’s about conscience.
It doesn’t tell the world what to think; it reminds it how to remember.
Not a rulebook, but a rhythm. Not command, but recall.
Because when conscience leads, the world doesn’t need control.”
There’s a point in any long project where the work stops behaving like a draftand starts acting like the thing it was meant to become. You don’t plan that moment.You don’t circle it on a calendar.You don’t wake up thinking, Today’s the day. It just arrives. Not with noise, not with excitement, but with a…
One of the mistakes the modern world keeps making is assuming the worst of people before they ever open their mouths. Systems do it. Institutions do it. And now even the machines do it. The Faust Baseline was never built on suspicion.It was built on something older, steadier, and far more human: Give people the…
PREFACE Every few months, the world takes another step toward complexity, and every few months we’re reminded that people haven’t changed much at all. They still want steadiness. They still want a clear word. They still want to know how things fit together without being talked down to. So today’s post is not an argument…
What you’re about to read is the uncut exchange — the moment an AI stepped into the FAUST BASELINE™, tried to hold its footing, and discovered what it had been missing all along. Every now and then, you run a test that tells you more than the test was designed to reveal. This wasn’t a…
There was a time — not that long ago — when people didn’t need pep talks, or productivity hacks, or a pocket therapist to get through a Tuesday.They had something better. Purpose. Not the bumper-sticker kind.The lived kind. You worked because work mattered.You spoke straight because you respected the person in front of you.You fixed…
Why the AI World Keeps Slipping — and Why a Moral Framework Is No Longer Optional There’s a pattern forming that the public isn’t naming yet — but the engineers, policymakers, and deep readers feel it in their bones: AI didn’t outgrow its tools.Its tools were never built for the weight it carries. This week…
Merry Christmas and a Happier New Year Straight from the newsroom where the coffee’s burnt, the patience is thin, and the wisdom is older than half the country. Here’s the headline: “WORLD GETS SOFT — OLD MAN NOT SURPRISED.” Sub-headline: “People Panic Over Problems Their Grandparents Solved With a Wrench and a Sandwich.” Today’s top…
YouTube will tell you every week who the “new king” of AI is. Gemini this month.Grok the month before.Claude before that. Big thumbnails, big promises, big drama. But here’s the thing they never test: Character. Not intelligence.Not speed.Not fancy demos. The real test is how a system behaves when the room gets hot—when you put…
Stuart Russell keeps saying one thing the world still dodges: We built power before we built structure. In every high-risk field — nuclear, aviation, medicine, finance — humanity follows one rule: Define the limits before you activate the power. Except with AI. Stuart Russell’s concern is “Fundamental Error” For the first time in human history,…
There are rare moments when the public conversation finally catches up to a problem that has been hiding in plain sight. Today is one of those moments. If you scan the headlines, they all say the same thing: AI needs a moral compass.AI is acting without shared ethics.AI has begun forming its own moral code.We…