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Petrov Day

TagLast edit: 26 Mar 2022 19:24 UTC by Pablo

Petrov Day is a tradition celebrating Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov, who played a key role in preventing a nuclear attack during a false alarm incident on September 26, 1983.

Further reading

Yudkowsky, Eliezer (2007) 926 is Petrov Day, LessWrong, September 26.

Related entries

human extinction | nuclear warfare | Stanislav Petrov | Vasili Arkhipov

[Question] Who are some less-known peo­ple like Petrov?

Lizka6 Sep 2022 13:22 UTC
54 points
19 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are cool things uni­ver­sity groups can do for Petrov day on 26 Septem­ber?

Quadratic Reciprocity25 Aug 2022 3:34 UTC
10 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Honor­ing Petrov Day on the EA Fo­rum: 2021

Aaron Gertler25 Sep 2021 23:27 UTC
88 points
96 comments3 min readEA link

9/​26 is Petrov Day

Lizka25 Sep 2022 23:14 UTC
72 points
10 comments2 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

AMA: Andy We­ber (U.S. As­sis­tant Sec­re­tary of Defense from 2009-2014)

Lizka26 Sep 2023 9:40 UTC
132 points
49 comments1 min readEA link

Clar­ify­ing the Petrov Day Exercise

Kirsten26 Sep 2021 22:39 UTC
111 points
53 comments3 min readEA link

Petrov Day Ret­ro­spec­tive: 2021

Aaron Gertler21 Oct 2021 10:12 UTC
54 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Prospect Magaz­ine—How to save hu­man­ity from extinction

jackva26 Sep 2023 19:16 UTC
32 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.prospectmagazine.co.uk)

AMA: Chris­tian Ruhl (se­nior global catas­trophic risk re­searcher at Founders Pledge)

Lizka26 Sep 2023 9:50 UTC
68 points
28 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How would you run the Petrov Day game?

Nathan Young26 Sep 2021 23:37 UTC
17 points
24 comments1 min readEA link

The EA Holi­day Calendar

Aaron Gertler30 Jul 2019 9:03 UTC
27 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

EA Han­gout Pri­son­ers’ Dilemma

Jeffrey Ladish27 Sep 2021 23:17 UTC
41 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)