“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.”
The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org Academic legitimacy does not come from popularity, search results, or platform recognition.It comes from restraint. This piece exists for one purpose only: to state, in plain terms, what the Faust Baseline claims to be, what it explicitly does not claim to be, and why it…
The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org We didn’t make life safer because we wanted to. We did it because reality forced us to . Nobody wakes up wanting more rules. People want to: Safety didn’t enter our lives because people loved it.It entered because ignoring it kept hurting people. And every…
The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org Most systems behave well in small rooms. They answer politely.They hedge.They adapt to whoever is in front of them. Scale is where they break. Because scale removes intimacy. It replaces conversation with pressure. It replaces judgment with throughput. It replaces responsibility with averages. That’s the…
The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org This is the question behind most of the questions. Not what it can do.Not how fast it is.Not how broadly it can be applied. But what it refuses to turn into—even when the pressure is steady, even when the incentives point the other way. Because…
The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org This one matters more than people realize. Because most failures don’t come from what a system can’t do.They come from what it quietly learns to tolerate. So the real question isn’t capability.It’s posture. And posture is where systems decay. They keep asking versions of the…
The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org The Baseline doesn’t struggle with that They keep asking how it ends. Not how it starts.Not how it answers.How it stops. That tells me more than the question itself. Because anyone can build a system that talks.Very few build one that knows when to be…
The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org Most AI systems treat speed as virtue. Fast answers.Instant responses.No pause between question and output. That bias isn’t neutral. It’s a design choice. And under pressure, it’s the choice that causes the most damage. Version 2.6 does not optimize for speed.More importantly, it does not…
The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org What wins when constraints collide Most systems talk about values.Very few tell you what happens when those values conflict. That omission isn’t accidental. It’s convenient. Because the moment you state priority, you give up flexibility.And flexibility is where systems usually hide. Version 2.6 does not…
The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org A question keeps coming up, quietly but honestly: If the Baseline is placed into an AI system that doesn’t know me, will it still work the same way? The answer matters, because it separates structure from relationship. Here’s the clean truth. The Baseline is not…
The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org Most AI systems are built to reduce friction. They absorb uncertainty.They soften consequences.They carry weight so the user doesn’t have to. That sounds helpful. It isn’t. When a system absorbs too much on behalf of the human, it doesn’t just help—it reassigns responsibility. And once…