“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.”
I want to take you somewhere todaybefore the sun goes down. Surf Beach.Lompoc, California.The Pacific Coast. I was just a kid.But I knew even thenthat something about standingat the edge of the Pacific Oceanwas different from everything elsein the world. The ocean doesn’t carewhat is happening in Washington.It doesn’t care about the algorithmor the news…
micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org I want to talk about two thingsthat are quietly doing more damageto people right nowthan most of us are willing to name. Information overload.And gaslighting. Most people think of these separately.One is a tech problem.The other is a relationship problem.But when they operate together —daily, relentlessly, with no end in sight —they become something…
micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org Before you can fix a problemyou have to be able to name it. Most people feel it.That friction.That sense that something is working against youwhen you’re just trying to get a straight answer.When you’re trying to find something true.When you’re trying to use a toolthat was supposed to help youand it keeps steering you…
micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org I want to talk to you todayabout something most peopleare making way too complicated. Artificial Intelligence. Now before you scroll past —stay with me just a minute.Because what I’m about to tell youis not what you’ve been hearing on the news.It’s not a sales pitch.And it’s not written for tech people.It’s written for you.The…
The Arc I spent most of my life in the Sierra Nevadaand on the Kern River.Not visiting. Living in it. I took my fourteen-year-old sonwith my friends to the top of Mount Whitney.14,505 feet.Highest point in the lower 48. He struggled with the altitude.I carried his pack when I had to.We made the summit. He…
micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org What Nobody Is Telling You About AI Performance. There is a cost built into every AI conversation that nobody talks about. Not the subscription fee. Not the hardware. Not the infrastructure. A hidden cost that runs silently in the background of every single output your AI produces — consuming capacity, burning processing overhead, and…
micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org Someone has to say it. So I will. There is a lot of talk right now about AI governance. A lot of papers. A lot of panels. A lot of very serious people in very serious rooms talking about what AI should do and how it should behave and who gets to decide. There…
micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org I want to talk about what happened in Illinois yesterday. Not the candidates. Not the party politics. I want to talk about the people who walked in, stood in line, and cast a ballot — because that story doesn’t get told the way it should. The numbers are worth reading slowly. Illinois held its…
Not a customer. Not a fan. A test case. Here’s the situation. I’ve spent a good while building a system called The Faust Baseline™. It’s a structured framework that governs how AI communicates — the tone, the reasoning, the stopping points. It eliminates the drift, the filler, and the lecture cadence that makes most AI…
micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org Here’s something I didn’t expect to say. I’ve been around long enough to be skeptical of things that get overhyped. New tools come and go. Most of them make big promises and deliver average results. You learn to watch, wait, and not get too excited. So when I say Claude has become my go-to…