OL0 — Open Letter to Joe Biden: Moonshot for Library to Avert Tyranny, Nuclear War, & Worse

To President Joe Biden, Dr. Jill Biden, and Anybody — a moonshot for ResearchCity with 7 Freedoms of Research.

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Abstract

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

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

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	Jonah License with CC0 Public Domain
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

• SD1 — Avert nuclear winter

• SD3 — POAATAD

• Posters Po.E–Po.H (4 signs authenticating mission) — in flyingscroll/page/

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Content stability — Content is variant dv_ClaOp46Max_MMv2_2026m04d02 (see StayVS). Rebuilt 2026-05-18.

Expert Review Needed: Help Assess This Research and Its AI Overview

This page makes accessible one document from LLoL’s 6+ year wid-e research marathon on existential risk and ResearchCity. The PDF linked above is the original work; this page provides an overview.

The original research needs expert review. Download the PDF and bring your expertise to bear — whether you are a scientist, policy maker, theologian, peace activist, or concerned citizen. This research aims to find gentle kind reasonable ways to solve existential problems. Your perspective matters for assessing whether it succeeds.

The AI overview (see the markers) may need correction. AI may have blindly twisted the original message by emphasizing other aspects than the author would have. Important nuances may thus be missed or misrepresented. If you spot errors, missing context, or misplaced emphasis, your corrections help every future reader.

Despite all potential shortcomings of AI, AI was still used here because not saying anything about this document would have been even worse. A race against existential risks is not nuanced. Neither can be the determination to do the right thing - and get the word out to get help.

LLoL is determined to ask for such help. Hence this website to give the world a fair chance at exploring and reviewing LLoL’s ideas.

Use the FeedbackFlow link below to send your review — whether it concerns the original PDF, the AI overview, or both.

LLoL may drown for a while in the FF invited, but if people are indeed interested in making this work and avert accidental nuclear winter, then LLoL predicts that enough people will be happy to pay the about $8/year/person it will take to start scaling up ResearchCity, in order to help with the proper review of such wid-e research proposals for global decision-support like this one.

Hence, please consider that your buy-in with about $8/year will help to shift the global game from a so-called prisoner’s dilemma to an assurance game with the help of mathematical theology.

This work requires global support to avoid capture by special interests. Refining complex posters, engaging scholars across traditions, and running formal consistency checks all require sustained effort — as does scaling up a ResearchCity for global FeedbackFlows.

Let’s hope it’s not too late to fund this work!

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