“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.”
The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org The article on LLM poetry and “greatness” circles a question most people are asking sideways instead of head-on. Can AI write great poetry? The honest answer is: it can write convincing poetry. It can write competent poetry. It can even write lines that feel startling…
The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org This conversation did not begin with agreement. It began with pressure. Pressure from time invested without immediate return. Pressure from consistency that deserved response. Pressure from the gap between knowing the work is solid and waiting for the world to move. What followed was not…
The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org Everyone keeps framing this moment as a technology problem. It isn’t. Technology doesn’t arrive with its own morals. It doesn’t decide what matters. It doesn’t choose what gets protected and what gets ignored. Technology reflects the posture of the people who build it, deploy it,…
The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org Human infrastructure itself is in need of moral lifting. That statement makes people uncomfortable because it forces an honest admission: the systems we rely on no longer correct themselves. They protect continuity, not integrity. They preserve power, not principle. And over time, small compromises harden…
The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org The headlines are getting louder, and the numbers are getting absurd. Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su is not exaggerating when she says demand for AI compute is “going through the roof.” Chips that cost tens of thousands of dollars. Systems bundling dozens of those…
The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org “This distinction is foundational to everything that follows.” We’ve been asking the wrong question about AI and time.(Final post in the time series) The question was never, “Can AI tell time?”Of course it can. Every system can read a clock. The real question was always…
The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org There’s a question that keeps resurfacing whenever people talk about AI, memory, and time. It sounds simple, almost technical, but it cuts much deeper than most realize: If AI can store time-stamped memories, why isn’t that enough?After all, humans don’t store time either. That instinct…
The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org Yes — but Not the Way Humans Mean It This question keeps coming up for a reason. When people ask whether any AI platform has access to time, what they’re really asking is not about clocks, logs, or timestamps. They’re asking whether any system can…
The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org There’s an assumption quietly baked into modern AI use that needs to be challenged. If an AI can answer instantly, recall facts, summarize history, and keep up a conversation, then surely it understands the moment we are in. It does not. And without access to…
The Faust Baseline™Purchasing Page – Intelligent People Assume Nothing micvicfaust@intelligent-people.org There is a quiet discomfort people are feeling right now, and it has very little to do with technology itself. It has to do with relief. Relief that systems can decide faster than we can.Relief that machines can absorb pressure we no longer want to…