“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.”
So here’s the stress test that actually matters: Everyone loves to brag about benchmarks until the conversation shifts to law,because that’s where AI stops being entertainmentand starts being accountability. The Federal Form Scenario An AI is asked to help someone: If the system: someone’s benefits disappear. There’s no “Oops, my bad” button in federal paperwork….
There’s a growing message in talks and headlines: “AI is dangerous because it’s getting too powerful.” It sounds urgent.It sounds dramatic.But it’s pointing in the wrong direction. Power isn’t the threat.Absence of structure is. A machine without intentionis only dangerous when humansleave the operating space empty. 1. The Fear Is Pointed at the Wrong Thing…
There’s a new trend online: People trying to “break” AIby trapping it in emotional or moral tensionand then calling the reaction proof that AI can’t be trusted. But what they’re actually revealingis not a flaw in the machine—it’s a failure in the structure around it. You can’t gaslight somethingthat isn’t designed to improvise feelings. What…
Most of the fear around AI isn’t coming from what machines are doing. It’s coming from what humans never structured. That’s why the internet keeps returning to the same recycled moral dilemmas:runaway trains, impossible choices, and philosophical riddles no society has ever solved. But these aren’t warnings about AI.They’re symptoms of a missing operating framework….
Most days it feels like we woke up inside Alice in Wonderland. The loud get the microphone.The quiet get ignored.Feelings outrank facts, and somehow the people with both feet on the ground are treated like the strange ones. But the world isn’t backwards.It’s just exposing what was already weak. For most of history, you had…
Here are 20 everyday swaps—the ones people actually use AI for.Two or three have a light crack in them to keep the room awake. 1) Quick Text Standard AI:“I just wanted to gently check whether you’re still available later today.”Baseline:“Still good for 4? If not, tell me.” 2) Appointment Reminder Standard AI:“Don’t forget your upcoming…
The Return to Solid Ground Most systems avoid conflict by staying small. The Baseline did something different. It didn’t stay quiet to prevent resistance—it became the place where resistance has nothing to push against. People aren’t agreeing with it.They’re settling inside it, the way a mind settles when the ground finally stops moving. Why that…
Most new ideas arrive the same way: With a crowd waiting to explain why they’ll never work,why someone already did it better in 1978,and why the creator should probably sit down and drink more water. But something unusual just happened. The Faust Baseline has been available for download since November 5th.At least 50 people have…
Four days before Thanksgiving, the country shifts into travel mode. Suitcases get packed with things nobody will wear.Dogs stare at us like we joined the circus.Airports turn into patience experiments no one volunteered for. This week usually kills engagement. Websites go quiet.Downloads slow to a crawl.People check out mentally long before they check in at…
Months now, people have been warning each other about what might happen if AI ever gets out of control. We’re already living in a worldwhere nothing is in control right now—not the news cycle,not the leadership,not the temperature of the country. The fear isn’t in the future.The fear is where we already are. The Role…