Thread by @JasonPLowery

Presenting a twitter thread on #SOFTWAR by ChatGPT4

1/6) #SOFTWAR discusses the national strategic security implications of proof-of-work technologies like Bitcoin, but first, it provides some background information on the profession of warfighting and the neologism "softwar."… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

2/6) In the early 1800s, General Clausewitz examined the nature of war and defined it as a trinity with three distinct characteristics. First, he said that war is comprised of the same "blind natural forces" of "primordial violence" observed in nature. This means that physical… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

3/6) Second, Clausewitz stated that war contains "the play of chance and probability" rewarding "creative spirits." This means that war is not just an indiscriminate physical power competition, but a probabilistic one – a.k.a. a lottery. Winning the power lottery is not merely… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

4/6) Third, Clausewitz acknowledged that war is an instrument of national policy used to resolve political disputes. In other words, war is a mechanism for nations to settle policy disputes using physical power (a.k.a. watts) rather than a court of law, because the former is… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

5/6) Overall, Clausewitz's definition of war is noteworthy because it acknowledges how physical power competitions are completely unbiased, indiscriminate, and exogenous to people’s belief systems. Physical power competitions are blind, showing no favoritism or discernable… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

6/6) The author uses Clausewitz's definition of war to provide a framework for analyzing the potential national strategic security implications of proof-of-work technologies like Bitcoin as a “soft” form of war that uses electric power rather than kinetic a.co/d/g8uBCx4… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…