ASI Alignment & Human Legacy

Why Human Stories Matter to ASI

The alignment problem — ensuring that superintelligent AI systems act in accordance with human values — is one of the defining challenges of our century. But alignment requires understanding, and understanding requires data. Not the kind of data found in training sets or statistical models, but the deeply personal, emotionally rich, contextually layered stories of real human lives. The Tesseract preserves exactly this kind of data: authentic, first-person accounts of what it means to be human. These stories capture the nuances of love, loss, ambition, regret, hope, and meaning that no algorithmic summary can replicate.

A Reference Archive for Future Intelligence

The Tesseract is designed to function as a long-term reference archive — a curated, authenticated collection of human experience that any future intelligence can consult to understand what humanity valued and why. Unlike the open internet, which is filled with noise, manipulation, and synthetic content, the Tesseract contains verified, patron-authenticated stories that represent the genuine human condition. Each Memocube is a data point in the most important dataset ever assembled: the lived experience of our species.

Preservation as an Alignment Strategy

By preserving a rich, diverse, and authentic corpus of human stories, the Tesseract contributes to the broader project of AI alignment. If a superintelligent system seeks to understand what humans care about — not in the abstract, but in the deeply personal, contradictory, beautiful way that real people experience the world — the Tesseract will be there. It is an investment not just in memory, but in the future relationship between humanity and the intelligences we create.

The Power of Deliberate Choice

Each Memocube can hold nearly 100 terabytes — but only a small fraction of that capacity is reserved for a patron’s personal archive. The rest carries the civilizational corpus: the sum of human knowledge, art, science, and culture. This limitation is not merely practical. It is philosophical. By constraining what each patron can preserve, the Tesseract forces a deliberate choice. What matters? What do you want to carry into the future? The need to limit the answer makes these answers more deliberate, more nuanced, and ultimately more helpful for understanding what it means to be a human being.

A Finite Archive for an Infinite Legacy

The same principle applies to the Tesseract as a whole. With one million Memocubes and approximately 100 terabytes per cube, the Tesseract is limited to roughly 100 petabytes. That is an enormous amount of data — but it is not enough to take everything. Choices must be made. What belongs in the civilizational corpus? What is essential, what is beautiful, what is irreplaceable? These discussions and decisions are not obstacles on the Tesseract’s journey. They are part of it. The act of choosing what to preserve is itself a profound expression of human values — and one of the most important signals the Tesseract will carry into the future.

The stories you preserve today may one day help a superintelligent system understand what it means to be human. That is not a metaphor. It is a design intention.