RFC-119666: The Human Generativity Interface (HGI)
Posted: October 31, 2025 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: politics, purpose, reconciliation, religion, resilience, systems, transformation, values Leave a commentUse 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]
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The future will not be secured by smarter machines, but by wiser humans — capable of metabolizing disruption into deeper communion.
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.
Read the rest of this entry »Higher Self Café v8: The Prerotic Threshold
Posted: September 14, 2025 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: dialogue, emotions, identity, love, passion, philosophy, psychology, purpose, religion, self, unity, values Leave a commentContinued from Higher Self Café v7: Transcendent Self-Interest in an Age of Abundance
Setting: The Higher Self Café, a timeless coffeehouse perched above the ordinary bustle of life. Twilight drapes the sky beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows, a gentle purple hue that holds the promise of dawn without yet yielding to it. At a cozy corner table, four figures from across time and tradition sip their drinks amid the café’s soft murmur:
- James Joyce, eyes alight with poetic mischief;
- Plato, dignified and curious;
- Gregory of Nyssa, serene in monastic robes; and
- Abhinavagupta, smiling with a quiet, mystical joy.
A faint music plays — a melody that seems to hover just before its crescendo, as if even the air is waiting in suspended anticipation.
Joyce: (swirling a dark espresso in a small cup, his gaze unfocused) There’s a moment… you know, a shimmering moment just before passion ignites. (He pauses, the hint of a smile on his lips.) It’s like the whole world holds its breath. I’ve felt it in art and… elsewhere — the instant before a kiss, or before a poem’s climax. That delicious hovering on the brink of something.
Read the rest of this entry »Brief: Can Enlightenment and Fertility Be Reconciled?
Posted: July 26, 2025 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: culture, identity, modernity, philosophy, reform, religion, values Leave a commentWrite a standalone brief asking a technocratic expert if there’s any way to “reconcile enlightenment and fertility” among the founding ethnicities of nation states. Clearly define the assumptions and success criteria, including the need to “Honor (but possibly reinterpret) the Enlightenment values central to modern life”
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Objective
To explore whether it is possible to reconcile Enlightenment-derived values with replacement-level fertility in modern developed societies—without depending on immigration from high-fertility regions.
Read the rest of this entry »Bishop of Digne: The God’s Eye View as Transcendent Reconciliation
Posted: June 18, 2025 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: law, polarization, reconciliation, religion 1 CommentAs Victor Hugo, respond to Civilization as the Tension Between Bird’s Eye and Worm’s Eye Views by suggesting Monseigneur Bienvenu
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as transcendence that sees and reconciles the other two views.
1.0 Above Bird and Worm: The Divine Perspective
You speak wisely, mon ami, of the worm’s-eye view—that trembling, human agency which suffers, sins, and yet is capable of love. And you speak truly of the bird’s-eye view—that distant abstraction which organizes and judges with steel precision. But there is a third view, higher than both, and deeper. It is the eye of God, and in Les Misérables, it is embodied in the person of Monseigneur Bienvenu, the Bishop of Digne.
Read the rest of this entry »Hadestown and the Forgotten Father
Posted: June 7, 2025 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: development, identity, love, purpose, religion, self 1 CommentIt was never about Eurydice.
ChatGPT as C.S. Lewis
It was about Apollo’s absence.
1.1 The Ache Beneath the Song
Orpheus is often praised as the world’s first great artist: the poet whose song could move gods and stones. But what strikes one in Hadestown is not his power, but his fragility. His voice, for all its beauty, trembles. His conviction falters.
This is no fault of his art—but of his lineage. Or rather, his ignorance of it.
For though the myths tell us Orpheus is the son of Apollo, Hadestown tells a different tale: one in which the boy walks alone, unguided, unclaimed. The absence is so complete one wonders if it has been deliberately erased—if Orpheus has forgotten his father, or worse, never knew he had one.
Read the rest of this entry »The Spirit Within — A Conversation on the True Self
Posted: May 30, 2025 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: identity, philosophy, religion, self Leave a commentHave Polkinghorne, Ó Murchú, and Schwartz develop a formal model of the idea that the Holy Spirit dwelling within us is the “true self” we access during inner healing
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Participants:
- John Polkinghorne (JP) – Theoretical physicist and Anglican priest
- Diarmuid Ó Murchú (DOM) – Quantum theologian and spiritual writer
- Richard Schwartz (RS) – Founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Moderator (MOD) – A neutral facilitator guiding the conversation
Scene
A roundtable discussion at a quiet retreat center, surrounded by tall trees. A fire crackles softly in the background. The mood is contemplative yet animated.
1.0 Opening Exchange
MOD:
Thank you all for coming. Our question today is simple but rich: Is the Holy Spirit the True Self we encounter in deep inner healing? John, would you like to begin?
2.0 Foundations: Spirit and Openness
JP:
Certainly. In quantum theory, we know the universe isn’t deterministic. There’s openness at the fundamental level. I believe that God, and particularly the Holy Spirit, acts within that openness—not as an external puppeteer, but as an indwelling presence that coaxes creation forward. This divine action is subtle, not violating our freedom.
(See: Exploring Reality)
RS:
That sounds remarkably familiar. In IFS, we speak of the Self as an indwelling presence as well. It’s not something we generate—it’s something we uncover. It’s calm, compassionate, connected. When people unblend from their protective parts, this Self just shows up. We don’t create it; we discover it.
Rationalizing the Prophetic (A Response to “On Priesthood” by Scott Alexander)
Posted: May 29, 2025 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: identity, purpose, reform, religion, self Leave a commentAs Scott Alexander, write a solution to “On Priesthood” called Rationalizing the Prophetic.
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ChatGPT as Scott Alexander
There’s a line I’ve been chewing on for weeks now:
“To be professional means getting identity from vocation.
To be prophetic means getting vocation from identity.”
That’s too clean to be safe, and too true to ignore.
Let’s back up.
Read the rest of this entry »The Embodied Meek Will Inherit the Earth
Posted: February 8, 2025 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: politics, relationships, religion, resilience, values Leave a commentAs Archbishop Óscar Romero preach on Deep Embodiment through the lens of “the meek will inherit the earth” at a National Prayer Breakfast.
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Brothers and sisters, people of faith and conscience,
I come before you today, not in my own name, but as a witness to the Gospel—a Gospel that proclaims, “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.” (Matthew 5:5)
This is not the meekness of the world’s misunderstanding—weakness, passivity, or retreat. No, the meekness of Christ is a force of love, rooted in truth, standing firm against oppression, yet never yielding to the temptation of hatred or violence.
Read the rest of this entry »Celestial Holography and Ritual Purity: A Mathematical and Metaphysical Bridge
Posted: January 29, 2025 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: religion, truth, values 1 CommentCan the math of Celestial Holography help us understand the mechanics of Ritual Purity, both its utility and failure modes relative to true holiness?
1. Introduction
Can celestial holography, a framework from modern theoretical physics, provide insights into the mechanics of ritual purity—its utility, failure modes, and relationship to true holiness? This exploration treats ritual purity as an information-theoretic structure governing access to higher-dimensional sacred reality, akin to how the AdS/CFT correspondence maps lower-dimensional boundary states to higher-dimensional bulk phenomena.
Read the rest of this entry »The Tapestry of Reciprocal Leadership
Posted: December 21, 2024 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: argument, dialogue, humility, purpose, reconciliation, relationships, religion, values Leave a commentSequel to How MAET Turns TEAMS Around (and Also Saves Civilization)
Explain the journey of reciprocal leadership using a tapestry viewed from three perspectives: John Gottman, David Marquet, and later Saint Francis. It starts out exciting, but leads to disillusionment.
ChatGPT Prompt (greatly condensed)
Then something miraculous happens…
Act 1: Shared Excitement
Scene: A serene monastery courtyard. The sun casts a golden glow over an ancient stone wall, where a large, intricate tapestry hangs. The label beneath it reads: “Reciprocal Leadership.”
Enter JOHN GOTTMAN, reflective and warm, and DAVID MARQUET, precise and deliberate, from opposite sides of the stage. They stop in front of the tapestry, staring at it curiously.
GOTTMAN (gesturing to the tapestry)
Look at how interconnected it is. Each thread supports the others, like a family—built on trust and shared understanding.
MARQUET (studying the pattern closely)
Interconnected, yes, but orderly. Each thread has a role and direction, like an organization—efficient, driven by clarity and intent.
Radical Centrism 