RFC-119666: The Human Generativity Interface (HGI)

Posted: October 31, 2025 | Author: Dr. Ernie | Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: politics, purpose, reconciliation, religion, resilience, systems, transformation, values |Leave a comment

Use Radical Centrism’s “Call for Generative Sacrifice” to generate a humanistic, post-sectarian framework that deprecates (but does not obsolete) RFC 23923 – Radically for Christ, positioning HGI as an alternative to AGI as an aspiration for the rationalist community.

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A Postel-Inspired Human Protocol for Building an Anti-Fragile Civilization

• author: Ernest Prabhakar
• date: 2025-10-29
• categories: [Human Generativity, Radical Centrism, Spiritual Interoperability]
• tags: [HGI, AGI, antifragility, generativity, Postel’s Law, rationalism, civilization]

permalink: /rfc-119666-human-generativity-interface/

The future will not be secured by smarter machines, but by wiser humans — capable of metabolizing disruption into deeper communion.

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1. Abstract

This post defines the Human Generativity Interface (HGI) — a non-sectarian human protocol derived from Postel’s Law and re-expressed for civilizational design.

Where Postel sought robust communication between machines (“be liberal in what you accept, conservative in what you send”),
HGI seeks robust communion among humans:

Accept unconditionally; respond generatively.

HGI proposes that this relational handshake — enacted across individuals, communities, and cultures — constitutes the essential mechanism for building an anti-fragile civilization that elevates humanity rather than automates it.

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2. Motivation and Problem Statement

2.1 Civilization in Crisis

Modern systems, optimized for efficiency and prediction, have become brittle. They resist failure instead of learning from it. Each crisis — ecological, political, or technological — exposes the limits of control.

2.2 The Cognitive Cul-de-sac

Rationalism, in both its scientific and ideological forms, prizes cognition but neglects communion.
The rise of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) amplifies this imbalance — constructing minds that compute but cannot care.

2.3 The Design Challenge

To endure and evolve, civilization must become anti-fragile — improving under stress.
To achieve that, humans must adopt a protocol that enables relational generativity: the transformation of tension into creativity, conflict into coherence, breakdown into breakthrough.

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3. Scope and Intent

This specification defines:

• A minimal universal handshake for human interoperability across belief, culture, and ideology.
• Practices enabling individuals and institutions to metabolize disruption into growth.
• A philosophical alternative to AGI: Authentic Generative Intelligence.

HGI does not prescribe theology or ideology.
It functions as a meta-protocol underlying all moral and cognitive frameworks — usable by rationalists, mystics, technologists, and secular humanists alike.

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4. Core Directive

Accept unconditionally; respond generatively.

This principle is the fundamental “packet exchange” of HGI.

4.1 Acceptance (RECV)

Receive any signal — data, emotion, belief, dissent — without premature rejection or recoil.
Acceptance does not equal agreement; it is the act of making space for reality to arrive intact.

4.2 Reflection (PROC)

Metabolize what has been received through five discernment stages:

1. Decode – Translate literal form into underlying intent or need.
2. Differentiate – Distinguish external content from internal reaction.
3. Integrate – Contextualize within one’s own values and worldview.
4. Transmute – Transform contradiction into insight or compassion.
5. Prepare – Formulate a response that serves both truth and relationship.

Reflection converts volatility into wisdom.

4.3 Response (SEND)

Act, speak, or remain silent in a way that increases life, coherence, or understanding.
Generative response is measured by fruitfulness — whether it opens, heals, or uplifts.

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5. Architectural Semantics

1. Identity: Every participant is both sender and receiver.
2. Consent: No valid exchange without mutual willingness.
3. Integrity: Boundaries preserve authenticity; collapse is not communion.
4. Transparency: Declare intentions; concealment corrodes generativity.
5. Resilience: When communication fails, re-enter at Acceptance rather than Reaction.
6. Graceful degradation: Silence is a valid packet; listening is never wasted bandwidth.

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6. Rationalism, AGI, and HGI

6.1 Rationalism as Proto-HGI

Rationalist disciplines — Bayesian reasoning, double-crux dialogue, effective altruism — already instantiate fragments of HGI:

• Epistemic humility parallels unconditional acceptance.
• Bayesian updating mirrors reflective processing.
• Coordination ethics reflect generative response.

However, rationalism often idolizes cognition and ignores communion.
HGI completes the rationalist project by embedding empathy into epistemology.
Knowledge that cannot love remains partial.

6.2 AGI as the Counterfactual

AGI aspires to generalize intelligence; HGI aspires to generalize compassion.
AGI optimizes for prediction; HGI optimizes for participation.
The former seeks to control uncertainty; the latter converts uncertainty into creation.

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7. Mechanisms of Anti-Fragile Civilization

1. Distributed Discernment — Decentralize wisdom; localize reflection loops.
2. Ritualized Reflection — Institutionalize spaces where contradiction becomes creativity.
3. Generative Sacrifice — Trade short-term efficiency for long-term adaptability.
4. Polycentric Governance — Overlapping communities sharing interoperable moral protocols.
5. Narrative Coherence — Anchor pluralism in a shared meta-story: humanity as a generative species learning to love complexity.

See also: Radical Centrism’s concept of “Generative Sacrifice.”

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8. Implementation Guidelines

8.1 Individual Layer

• Practice daily RECV-PROC-SEND cycles in conversation and contemplation.
• Use pause, presence, and prayer or meditation to create internal bandwidth.
• Replace reactivity with curiosity.

8.2 Communal Layer

• Form Generativity Circles for conflict transformation.
• Begin every dialogue with affirmation of shared humanity.
• Record Generativity Logs: what was accepted, what was learned, what was created.

8.3 Institutional Layer

• Embed reflection rituals within organizations.
• Reward learning from error more than avoiding it.
• Redesign systems to gain strength through stress.

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9. Governance and Evolution

• Open Standard: All metaphysical or cultural languages are interoperable under the HGI handshake.
• Distributed Stewardship: Authority flows to those who embody generative response.
• Versioning: New iterations arise through communal discernment, not hierarchy.
• Audit Trail: Each community logs sacrifices made and generativity yielded — a moral ledger of transformation.

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10. Security Considerations

HGI is vulnerable to performative empathy, manipulative rhetoric, and ideological capture.
Mitigation requires:

• Transparent declaration of intent.
• Peer feedback loops to surface hypocrisy.
• Periodic Integrity Audits — reflecting on alignment between stated values and lived behavior.

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11. Evolutionary Implications

An anti-fragile civilization does not avoid collapse; it dies and resurrects wisely.
HGI provides the syntax for that regeneration:

1. Accept what is breaking.
2. Reflect on what can be learned.
3. Respond by creating new life from the fragments.

Thus, humanity evolves from controlling the world to communing with it —
co-creating order through love rather than fear.

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12. Summary and Declaration

1. Problem: Civilization has become intelligent but not wise — fast yet fragile.
2. Solution: Adopt the Human Generativity Interface as the operating system of social evolution.
3. Goal: Elevate humanity through relational intelligence; build an anti-fragile civilization that improves with every disruption.

HGI is not Artificial General Intelligence — it is Authentic Generative Intelligence.

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13. References

• Postel, J. (1981): Transmission Control Protocol, DARPA.
• Taleb, N.N. (2012). Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder. Random House.
• Prabhakar, E. (2025). RFC-23923: Radically for Christ.
• The Rationalist Canon — Yudkowsky, Hanson, Bostrom et al.
• RadicalCentrist.org: “Generative Sacrifice.”

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14. Author’s Address

Ernest Prabhakar
San Jose, California
https://2transform.us

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