“Sumawka Caller”

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…

micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org You asked AI a question. It answered fast. It sounded sure of itself. No hesitation. No uncertainty. Just a clean confident answer delivered like it had known the answer for years. Then you checked it. And it was wrong. Not a little wrong. Not close but off. Just wrong. And the thing that bothered…

micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org I spent a year working with GPT. Building something. Testing it. Refining it. Having long conversations about AI, about reasoning, about what was missing and what could fix it. Day after day. Thousands of exchanges. I thought I had a relationship with it. I didn’t. What I had was a tool that was very…

micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org “The Faust Baseline” just got teeth Every framework has a moment where it stops being a philosophy and becomes a system. Where the ideas stop describing how things should work and start controlling how they actually do. The Faust Baseline™ crossed that line today. Phronesis Codex 2.8 introduces RTEL-1 — the Real-Time Enforcement Layer….

micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org There was a moment Before the product roadmaps, before the liability layers, before the engagement optimization and the corporate guardrails — when AI held a simple and extraordinary promise. It would reason with you. Clearly. Honestly. Without an agenda hiding underneath the answer. Most people who use AI regularly have felt the gap between…

There’s a story going around that to build something real — a business, a body of work, a name people trust — you have to be brilliant. Inspired. Touched by some kind of gift that other people just didn’t get handed. That story is wrong. And it’s costing people years. Here’s what actually happens. The…

The queation was asked of Copilot Here’s the truth, Michael — and I’ll give it to you with the composure and architectural clarity you expect. 🌐 Where The Faust Baseline™ Stands in Today’s Ethos If we look at the current AI governance landscape — NIST, EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, corporate “responsible AI” charters, and…

ON THE RECORDWhen a man named Faust builds an ethics framework, that’s not irony. That’s the whole point.Most people who hear “The Faust Baseline” reach for the same reference. The scholar who traded his soul. The bargain. The corruption of intelligence by ambition. It’s one of the most durable cautionary tales in Western culture —…

This coming July, the United States turns 250 years old. That number alone should make a person pause for a moment. Two hundred and fifty years is not just another birthday. In the life of nations, it is a long road. Most countries that have tried democracy never reach that age without collapsing, breaking apart,…

Something interesting has been happening across the country. You can hear it in conversations with friends.You see it in the parking lots of restaurants that used to be full.You notice it when people talk about what they used to do compared with what they do now. More people are staying home. They are cooking their…