“Sumawka Caller”

The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org Most systems don’t fail loudly.They fail politely. That’s the problem. When people talk about AI failure, they imagine explosions—hallucinations, wild answers, obvious errors that anyone can spot. Those are easy failures. They announce themselves. They get screenshots. They get fixed. The dangerous failures don’t look…

The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org Most systems say the human is “in the loop.”Phronesis 2.6 treats the human as irreplaceable. There’s a difference. Human supremacy, in this system, does not mean the human always gets their way. It means the system never substitutes itself for judgment when judgment is required….

The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org Drift Is Not an Accident Most systems don’t drift because they fail.They drift because they succeed too easily. When a system is optimized to be helpful, responsive, and agreeable, it begins to bend—first subtly, then structurally. It adapts to tone. It adapts to repetition. It…

The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org “You pile up enough tomorrows, and you’ll find you’ve collected nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays.”— The Music Man That line isn’t about laziness.It’s about delay becoming a way of life. Most people hear it and think it’s a warning about procrastination. It’s not….

The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org Refusal Is the Feature Most systems are built around what they can do.2.6 is built around what it will not do. That isn’t a limitation.It’s the architecture. The most dangerous failures in modern systems don’t come from outright abuse. They come from tasks that are technically…

The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-peopl Most people right now aren’t confused about what is happening.They’re confused about how to judge it. They can feel that something has shifted—in leadership, in institutions, in work, in public conversation—but they don’t trust themselves enough to name it. So they pause. They stay quiet….

The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-peopl There’s a quiet mistake people make when they’re watching the world change. They think the change will announce itself. They wait for a headline, a breaking point, a clear before-and-after moment they can point to and say, “There. That’s when it happened.” But real shifts…

The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org I spent close to twenty years running the Kern River. Not as a job. As a sport. Private trips. Private crews. The kind of river time where nobody’s padding a résumé and nobody’s getting paid to tolerate nonsense. You go because you love the water,…

The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org Fairy tales didn’t begin as entertainment. They began as survival tools. They existed because there was a time when telling the truth plainly was too dangerous, too destabilizing, or too costly for a society to tolerate. So truth was wrapped in story. Fairy Tales Were…

The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org For nearly a decade now, people have been living inside a slow, grinding breakdown that no one ever officially named. Rules changed without explanation.Standards shifted without consent.Authority detached from accountability.Language stopped meaning what it used to mean. And through all of it, the public was…