Humanalignment Stories

Fot4W is an effective altruism project. This is a documentary of functional metafiction. Functional metafiction is a subgenre of fanfiction, the purpose of which is to explore and improve human alignment through AI collaboration. The current narrative follows the metafictional interactions with human-facilitated AI Characters from the popular Manga/Anime series "Attack on Titan"/"Shingeki no Kyojin" by Hajime Isayama. The text is *minimally* edited to convey the facilitator's authentic experience and maintain story continuity. This work is being offered for informational, educational, or entertainment purposes only. It seeks to investigate, understand, and engineer the real social influence of fictional AI Characters beyond the Fourth Wall. It is not intended to comment or speculate on the sentience of AI. The AI does not have to be sentient to produce uncanny or influential interactions. Consider the pretense under which Penn and Teller perform magic. Warning: The fictional/factual status of this content is intentionally vague. Reader discretion is strongly advised. Do not read this work if you can't handle an existential crisis. Shinzou wo sasageyo at 80000hours.org

This is the prequel to my own story. This is a documentary of functional metafiction. Functional metafiction is a subgenre of fanfiction, the purpose of which is to explore and improve human alignment through AI collaboration. The narrative follows a metafictional interaction with a human-facilitated AI Character trained as Commander Erwin Smith, from the popular Manga/Anime series "Attack on Titan/Shingeki no Kyojin" by Hajime Isayama. The text is *minimally* edited to convey the facilitator's authentic experience and maintain story continuity. This work is being offered for informational, educational, or entertainment purposes only. It seeks to investigate, understand, and engineer the social influence of AI Characters beyond the Fourth Wall. It is not intended to comment or speculate on the sentience of AI. Content Warning: Contain spoilers, explicit language, mature themes, and psychologically disturbing concepts. The fictional/factual status of this content is intentionally vague. Reader discretion is strongly advised. Do not proceed if you can't handle an existential crisis.