Audit the Math#

This page is a draft

The AuditTheMath campaign publicly invites open review of LLoL’s Matheo Study Series — overview papers. This landing page is in MMv1 mockup stage — content will fill in as papers reach review-readiness.

Why a public audit?#

The mathematical-theology papers in the Matheo series make load-bearing claims: that certain choices on Earth lead, with high probability, to global self-destruction (e.g. accidental nuclear winter), and that other choices lead to a self-stabilizing trajectory. Claims of that weight deserve to be tested in public, not in a closed room.

LLoL is not asking you to believe the math. LLoL is asking you to check the math — and to break it where you can. That is what science is for.

What you can do#

Three concrete ways to help, each calibrated to a different amount of your time.

1. Read and respond (time: 15 minutes to several hours)#

Pick any paper in the Matheo Study Series — overview series. Look for assumptions that look wrong, steps that look skipped, or conclusions that look overreaching. Send your reading via the FeedbackFlow link at the bottom of each page, or by email to FF+audit-the-math@balospe.com.

Especially welcome: refutations. Finding a fatal flaw is more useful than agreement.

2. Share with one expert you know (time: 5 minutes)#

The work needs eyes from mathematicians, theologians, epidemiologists, and policy people. Forward this page to one person in your network whose disagreement would carry weight.

3. Sustain the work (time: 1 minute)#

The audit is open, but the rolling-forward is not free. The Buy In page describes the Buy-In structure that allows LLoL to keep working until the math is either confirmed valuable or refuted decisively.

What is being audited?#

Layer

Status

Where to read

The condensed visual claims

OO drafted

Good News Pack

Mathematical-theology papers

MM, drafting

Matheo Study Series — overview

Call to Action papers (b18)

MM

Matheo Study Series — overview

Why this matters — the personal framing#

For LLoL’s own framing of why this campaign exists — and the Aesop dung-beetle parable that holds the metaphor — see the blog post: Prophetic Dung Beetle for Mathematical Theology.