🦌 Softwar | Power Projection and National Defense 1/
122 sats \ 4 comments \ @go 1 Mar bitcoin
ABOUT SOFTWAR
  • The book posits Bitcoin as a potentially transformative tool for national security and power projection within the digital realm.
  • The thesis stressed the potential of Bitcoin’s proof-of-work technologies to function as a novel type of electro-cyber power projection tool.
  • This groundbreaking idea, which he dubbed “softwar,” was considered to hold transformative potential for national strategic security in the 21st century.
BOOK WITHDRAWAL
  • Jason Lowrey has withdrawn his book from public press, prompting speculation among readers and academics alike.
  • The work, which was presented as a thesis to the System Design and Management Program at MIT in February 2023, has additionally been removed from the MIT library’s inventory.
  • The abrupt and unexplained removal of “Softwar” from the public sphere has created a cloud of unanswered queries.
  • At press time, Softwar had been removed from Amazon, Google shopping listings, Thriftbooks, and other major booksellers, as well as from the MIT Press site.
Online book: https://archive.org/details/lowery-jason-p.-major-softwar-a-novel-theory-on-power-projection-and-the-nationa
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Question: What do you think about the Bit Power idea as a reframing of the concept of what Satoshi invented?

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121 sats \ 3 replies \ @elvismercury 2 Mar
I expect that he withdrew it because it is comically horseshit and was hoping people would stop noticing and eventually forget.
Removing it from MIT is interesting, though, as my understanding was that theses for which they grant higher degrees are public.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 2 Mar
And yet people still promote this garbage.
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27 sats \ 1 reply \ @go OP 2 Mar
Comically horseshit garbage. Them’re strong words. I’m only unaware of the criticisms but you guys throw them around like everyone should know.
First tell me what he got right, that would be more interesting than what he got wrong. Maybe we could all learn. I’m not a Lowery simp, I just thought there was something valuable in it.
Also, for the record, I tried searching SN before posting but the results are CHG because it only returns results for “software”. The search lacks the “Searching for ‘software.’ Did you mean ‘softwar’?” function
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury 3 Mar
What he got right was some of the the evolutionary signaling theory and how it grounds signaling in the ability to project physical force. He did a pretty nice job on that, actually, and demonstrated a sophisticated understanding of the topic and applied it to PoW vs PoS in an interesting way.
Then he overextended it to nonsensical degree. Then he went around preening like a barnyard rooster, talking shit, and flexing his non-existant bona fides as a Space Camp Cadet or whatever the fuck. Which isn't a technical argument, but it's telling about what mental frame is operating behind the scenes.
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