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   :description: AI overview of Open Letter OL0 by LLoL — to Joe Biden, Dr. Jill Biden, and Anybody, proposing a moonshot library to avert tyranny and nuclear war.
   :keywords: open letter, OL0, Joe Biden, moonshot, nuclear war, 7 Freedoms, Flying Scroll, ResearchCity, LLoL, DARL, Good News Pack, MMv3
   :og:card:title: Open Letter OL0<br>To Joe Biden
   :og:card:description: LLoL's moonshot proposal to Joe Biden — a library to avert tyranny, nuclear war, and worse, with 7 Freedoms of Research.


.. title:: OL0 — to Joe Biden


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OL0 — Open Letter to Joe Biden: Moonshot for Library to Avert Tyranny, Nuclear War, & Worse
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*To President Joe Biden, Dr. Jill Biden, and Anybody — a moonshot for ResearchCity with 7 Freedoms of Research.*


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Abstract
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Open Letter OL0 is a 2-page letter from LLoL to President Joe Biden,
Dr. Jill Biden, and "Anybody," dated 2025-12-03. Subtitled "Moonshot
for library to avert tyranny, nuclear war, & worse," it frames
ResearchCity as a library-scale moonshot project.

LLoL connects to Biden through the 2020 election narrative: "You ran
on the divine mission to save the Uniting States Constitution from the
jaws of tyranny. Despite setbacks I still see that divine mission."
He introduces himself with personal history: his grandfather was a
Lutheran pastor of the Confessing Church in Nazi Germany, he is a
computational biologist (Dr.rer.nat., UW-Madison associate professor),
and since 2020 he set his career aside for a wid-e research marathon
asking: *can I envision a nucleus for a better world and a path to get
there that I deem worthy of my life to implement forever?*

The letter recounts LLoL's evolution: hating "fear-mongering and false
hopes," he threw everything he had into evolving a "surprising
turn-around vision." He prepared a ~20-80+ poster exhibition called
the "Flying Scroll" which he hopes to display at the US Capitol, the
UN in NYC, the Vatican, Jerusalem, and beyond. The core ask: **"Please
meet with me so that I can explain my vision."**

Page 2 introduces the **7 Freedoms of Research** (Box B3), extending
the 4 Freedoms won in WWII into a framework for wid-e innovation:

1. Free to worship (not idolize ignorance)
2. Free to complicate (not overcomplicate)
3. Free to negotiate (not kill free opposition)
4. Free to reach models (not overreach or demonize)
5. Free to divide dividends (not indivisible individuals)
6. Free to simplify (not oversimplify or bias)
7. Free to observe and say (not bashmol or destroy)

Where **bashmol** = blindly assuming, stereotyping habits, mistakenly
oppressing life.

LLoL's 5-word mission: **"Turn all doom to delight"** --- via
ResearchCity for ~$8/year/person. He asks Biden to help win trust of
the 10 Nuclear Kings to discuss "putting Earth in Escrow."


Key Concepts at a Glance
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   * - **Moonshot for library**
     - ResearchCity framed as a library-scale project for global
       decision-support, echoing Kennedy's moonshot ambition
   * - **7 Freedoms of Research**
     - Extension of WWII's 4 Freedoms into a framework for guarding
       wid-e innovation without fear or favor
   * - **Bashmol**
     - Blindly assuming, stereotyping habits, mistakenly oppressing
       life --- what the 7th Freedom guards against
   * - **Confessing Church**
     - LLoL's grandfather's legacy: resistance to Nazi tyranny through
       the Confessing Church, motivating LLoL's stance
   * - **Turn all doom to delight**
     - LLoL's 5-word mission summary
   * - **Flying Scroll**
     - ~20-80+ poster exhibition presenting LLoL's full vision


Broader Significance (Claude's Assessment)
============================================

OL0 is numbered "zero" --- it precedes OL1 in the series, suggesting it
was conceived as the foundational personal introduction before the more
structured appeals. It is notable for:

1. **The Biden connection.** Framing the appeal through Biden's 2020
   "divine mission" narrative creates political resonance, while "and
   Anybody" in the addressee line keeps the letter universally accessible.

2. **The 7 Freedoms.** Extending Roosevelt's 4 Freedoms to 7, with
   each freedom paired with its corruption (e.g., "free to simplify
   but not to oversimplify or bias"), creates a nuanced framework that
   acknowledges the dual-use nature of every freedom.

3. **The "confusion-cancer" metaphor.** LLoL describes misinformation as
   a cancer and his "confusion-cancer moonshot" is to grow a system
   (ResearchCity) that can address it *gentle kind reasonably*.


Document Information
=====================

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   * - **Document ID**
     - OL0 (Open Letter 0)
   * - **Full title**
     - Moonshot for library to avert tyranny, nuclear war, & worse
   * - **From**
     - Laurence Loewe of Laodicea (LLoL), DARL
   * - **To**
     - President Joe Biden, Dr. Jill Biden, and Anybody
   * - **Date**
     - 2025-12-03
   * - **Version**
     - iv_LLoL_RRv1r0p3_2025m12d03
   * - **Format**
     - 2-page letter with 4 side boxes (B0--B4)
   * - **License**
     - :doc:`Jonah License with CC0 Public Domain </license/joli/index>`
   * - **Part of**
     - Good News Pack MMv3, Open Letters collection
   * - **PDF size**
     - 104 KB
   * - **WebP size**
     - 300 KB

Related documents in the Good News Pack:

- `OL1 — Open Letter to US Presidents & All </_file/pdf/gnp/mmv3/open-letter/ol1/open-letter-ol1-iv_llol_qqv4_2025m12d03-4page.pdf>`__
- `SD1 — Avert nuclear winter </_file/pdf/gnp/mmv3/supporting-doc/sd1/sd1-how-to-avert-accidental-nuclear-winter-and-why-its-urgent-iv_llol_qqv4_2025m12d03-page.pdf>`__
- `SD3 — POAATAD </_file/pdf/gnp/mmv3/supporting-doc/sd3/sd3-poaatad-power-of-attorney-advocating-to-avert-disasters-iv_llol_qqv4_2025m12d03-2page.pdf>`__
- Posters Po.E--Po.H (4 signs authenticating mission) --- in ``flyingscroll/page/``


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