OL1 — Open Letter: Please Help Me Cure AI to Avert Accidental Nuclear Winter

Addressed to Uniting States Presidents, Residents, and All — an open appeal to help scale up ResearchCity.

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Abstract

Open Letter OL1 is a 4-page letter from Laurence Loewe of Laodicea (LLoL), written under the banner of the Datageddon Armageddon Research Lab (DARL), addressed to “Dear Uniting States Presidents, Residents, and All.” Dated 2025-01-20 to 2025-09-29, it is an open appeal for help in averting accidental nuclear winter and curing AI-related existential risks.

LLoL introduces himself through the parable of Somebody, Everybody, Anybody, and Nobody (Box B1): an important job needed doing, everyone assumed someone else would handle it, and nobody did. LLoL applies for that “Job of Nobody” — the job of fighting to end nuclear roulette. He grounds this in his transition from UW-Madison associate professor to full-time existential risk researcher at DARL, beginning 2020.

The letter presents LLoL’s central discovery: a “divine map” for scaling up a ResearchCity to solve humanity’s 7DUIs (7 Death Urn Incinerators) — (1) pandemics and cancer chemicals, (2) seaspiracy killing ocean ecosystems, (3) water wars and soil erosion, (4) global warming, (5) tongue-biting work-morale collapse, (6) the end of growth, and (7) ultimate nuclear, AI-drone, or other self-destruction. The proposed funding model: approximately $8/year per person globally, administered through an entirely non-violent institution.

The letter addresses multiple power centers in turn:

• The Uniting States (not “United”), called to return to the 7Capstone blessings of its Constitution

• The Roman Catholic Church, built on the Rock-Apostle Peter, offered an “apostolic guide for healing”

• The 4+ Abrahamic Faiths (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Science, …), invited to Abraham Accords that integrate insights across traditions

• The 10 Nuclear Kings (nuclear-armed nations), called to put Earth in escrow while the transition unfolds

Key structural proposals include: 50-year Jubilee cycles (Lev.25) as a mechanism for renewal, StayVS (self-Stabilizing Versioning System) to combat global misinformation, wILDER Fellowships for interactive research, and FiShFus (Fiduciaries Sharing Futures) as paid long-term thinkers.

The letter closes with LLoL’s personal statement: “I threw my life, wife, and kitchen sink at testing reliability in my Good News Pack. To debug it better, I need world leaders to help me.” He references supporting documents SD1 (nuclear winter forecast model), SD2 (epiocracy introduction), and SD3 (POAATAD — Power of Attorney Advocating to Avert Disasters).

Key Concepts at a Glance

Job of Nobody	LLoL’s self-appointed role: the person who takes on the existential risk problems that everyone assumes someone else will solve
7DUIs	7 Death Urn Incinerators: the seven categories of existential threat LLoL identifies (pandemics, ocean destruction, water/soil, climate, work-morale, growth limits, nuclear/AI self-destruction)
ResearchCity	Proposed entirely non-violent institution for life-giving decision-support, funded at ~$8/year/person globally
DARL	Datageddon Armageddon Research Lab — LLoL’s research entity
7Capstone	LLoL’s reading of the 7 purposes in the US Constitution’s preamble as echoing biblical blessings (Mt.5, Rev.2-3)
Abraham Accords	Proposed framework integrating insights from all Abrahamic traditions to enrich personal lives and integrate faith
StayVS	Self-Stabilizing Versioning System: a versioning approach designed to stop global misinformation without enabling dictatorial control
FiShFus	Fiduciaries Sharing Futures: 288,000 paid long-term thinkers serving humanity
wILDER Fellowships	wid-e Interactive Learning Developing Educating Research fellowships
Homo serpens + H. amnesiens	LLoL’s biological renaming of H. “sapiens” to reflect humanity’s tendency to wriggle around truth (serpens) and forget lessons (amnesiens) rather than truly “know” (sapiens)
The Ark	Reinterpreted as a bridge — a quantum portal to another realm, a stairway connecting Heaven to Earth through the Covenant

Broader Significance (Claude’s Assessment)

OL1 is the founding appeal of the Good News Pack. It combines several unusual elements:

1. Quantitative grounding. The letter explicitly references SD1’s stochastic nuclear winter model (RiskyMAD) and SD2’s epiocracy framework, positioning itself as a research-backed appeal rather than a purely rhetorical or faith-based one.

2. Multi-institutional addressing. Rather than targeting one power center, OL1 simultaneously addresses the US presidency, the Catholic Church, all Abrahamic faiths, and all nuclear-armed nations. This reflects the letter’s premise that existential risk is a coordination problem requiring all major institutions to act together.

3. Personal disclosure. LLoL transparently states his academic credentials (UW-Madison associate professor), his career sacrifice (“I set my career aside”), his personal stakes (“I threw my life, wife, and kitchen sink”), and his spiritual framework (identifying as a “holy fool” in the Russian yurodivyy tradition). The letter does not hide behind institutional authority but instead leads with personal vulnerability.

4. Integration across domains. The letter weaves together computational biology (Evolvix), game theory (superrational cooperation), theology (pan-en-theism, Jubilee cycles), and political philosophy (epiocracy) into a single narrative. Whether this integration succeeds is precisely the question the letter puts before its readers.

5. Concrete funding model. The ~$8/year/person figure and the FiShFus/wILDER Fellowship structure attempt to make the vision actionable rather than merely aspirational.

Who This Document Is For

Audience	Why OL1 Matters
Policy makers & government officials	OL1 proposes a concrete diplomatic framework: “put Earth in an escrow” while a multi-stage transition unfolds. The letter challenges the US to live up to its constitutional 7Capstone by leading a global coordination effort funded at ~$8/person/year.
Nuclear security researchers	The letter directly references the SD1 nuclear winter forecast model and argues that nuclear roulette is mathematically unwinnable. It proposes MAP (Mutually Assured Progress) as an alternative to MAD.
Religious leaders & theologians	OL1 addresses each Abrahamic tradition directly and proposes Abraham Accords grounded in formal theological reconciliation. The reinterpreted Ark, the yurodivyy (holy fool) tradition, and the pan-en-theistic framework may resonate or provoke — either way, engagement is invited.
Scientists & academics	LLoL’s academic background (computational biology, Google Scholar record) and the Evolvix simulation framework provide entry points for technical assessment. The StayVS versioning system and FiShFus institutional design invite critique from systems thinkers.
Activists & concerned citizens	The “Job of Nobody” framing is designed as a call to action: if nobody takes responsibility for existential risk, the math shows humanity loses. OL1 asks everyone to help review, test, and refine the proposed path forward.

Document Information

Document ID	OL1 (Open Letter 1)
Full title	Please help me cure AI to avert accidental nuclear winter
From	Laurence Loewe of Laodicea (LLoL), DARL
To	Uniting States Presidents, Residents, and All
Dates	2025-01-20 to 2025-09-29
Version	iv_LLoL_RRv4r0p1_2025m09d29 (document); iv_LLoL_QQv4_2025m12d03 (MMv3 release)
Format	4-page letter with 7 side boxes (B0–B7)
License	Jonah License with CC0 Public Domain
Part of	Good News Pack MMv3, Open Letters collection
PDF size	135 KB
WebP size	267 KB

Related documents in the Good News Pack:

• SD1 — How to avert accidental nuclear winter (stochastic RiskyMAD model)

• SD2 — Introduction to epiocracy

• SD3 — POAATAD: Power of Attorney Advocating to Avert Disasters

• SD9 — Referenced for “tons of exhibits” (foreclosure plea)

• OL2, OL3, OL10 — additional open letters to specific recipients

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Notes

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.

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