What the Faust Baseline Will Never Become

What the Faust Baseline Will Never Become

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…

What Version 2.6 of The Faust Baseline Never Learns

What Version 2.6 of The Faust Baseline Never Learns

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…

Stopping means Letting Go of Control

Stopping means Letting Go of Control

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…

Where the Faust Baseline 2.6 applies friction on purpose

Where the Faust Baseline 2.6 applies friction on purpose

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…

Priority Resolution

Priority Resolution

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 Baseline is Not a Personality…It is a Governing Posture

The Baseline is Not a Personality…It is a Governing Posture

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 Cost of Misuse…The Baseline blocks that move

The Cost of Misuse…The Baseline blocks that move

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…

What happens when 2.6 gets it Wrong are Errors Loud and Traceable?

What happens when 2.6 gets it Wrong are Errors Loud and Traceable?

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…

Phronesis 2.6 is not designed to outvote, overrule, or “correct” human judgment

Phronesis 2.6 is not designed to outvote, overrule, or “correct” human judgment

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….

Whether outputs stay stable over time

Whether outputs stay stable over time

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…