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Petrov Day

TagLast edit: 30 Sep 2024 4:59 UTC by Ruby

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.

How to celebrate [stub]

petrov.com has an organizer’s guide for a small quiet ceremony, and Modes of Petrov Day contains additional ideas. Otherwise see the many posts tagged Petrov Day for things people have done in various times/​places/​groups.

LessWrong Website Celebrations

The LessWrong site has an annual tradition of commemorating the day involving users having the potential to take down the LessWrong frontpage for 24 hours. This has happened since 2019. Here are the relevant posts.

YearAnnouncementRetrospective
2019Honoring Petrov Day on LessWrong, in 2019Follow-Up to Petrov Day, 2019
2020Honoring Petrov Day on LessWrong, in 2020Postmortem to Petrov Day, 2020
2021Petrov Day 2021: Mutually Assured Destruction?Petrov Day Retrospective: 2021
2022LW Petrov Day 2022 (Monday, 926)Petrov Day Retrospective: 2022
2023N/​APetrov Day Retrospective, 2023 (re: the most important virtue of Petrov Day & unilaterally promoting it)
2024[Completed] The 2024 Petrov Day Scenario2024 Petrov Day Retrospective

See also

Existential Risk, Ritual

9/​26 is Petrov Day

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Sep 2007 16:14 UTC
276 points
64 comments2 min readLW link

Modes of Petrov Day

Raemon17 Sep 2019 2:47 UTC
69 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

Petrov Day is Septem­ber 26

jimrandomh18 Sep 2014 2:55 UTC
32 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Honor­ing Petrov Day on LessWrong, in 2020

Ben Pace26 Sep 2020 8:01 UTC
117 points
100 comments3 min readLW link

Post­mortem to Petrov Day, 2020

Ben Pace3 Oct 2020 21:30 UTC
97 points
63 comments9 min readLW link

An Idea for a More Com­mu­nal Petrov Day in 2022

Ben Pace21 Oct 2021 21:51 UTC
44 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

LW Petrov Day 2022 (Mon­day, 9/​26)

Ruby22 Sep 2022 2:56 UTC
121 points
111 comments5 min readLW link

[Com­pleted] The 2024 Petrov Day Scenario

26 Sep 2024 8:08 UTC
136 points
114 comments5 min readLW link

Petrov Day Ret­ro­spec­tive: 2021

Ruby21 Oct 2021 21:50 UTC
80 points
43 comments9 min readLW link

Petrov Day 2021: Mu­tu­ally As­sured Destruc­tion?

Ruby22 Sep 2021 1:04 UTC
99 points
96 comments4 min readLW link

On De­stroy­ing the World

Chris_Leong28 Sep 2020 7:38 UTC
82 points
86 comments5 min readLW link

Fol­low-Up to Petrov Day, 2019

Ben Pace27 Sep 2019 23:47 UTC
78 points
20 comments3 min readLW link

Honor­ing Petrov Day on LessWrong, in 2019

Ben Pace26 Sep 2019 9:10 UTC
137 points
168 comments4 min readLW link

Rus­sian Food for Petrov Day

weft4 Sep 2022 17:57 UTC
17 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Petrov Day Ret­ro­spec­tive, 2023 (re: the most im­por­tant virtue of Petrov Day & unilat­er­ally pro­mot­ing it)

Ruby28 Sep 2023 2:48 UTC
66 points
73 comments6 min readLW link

Stanis­lav Petrov Day

gwern26 Sep 2011 14:49 UTC
46 points
167 comments1 min readLW link

Happy Petrov Day!

Martin Sustrik27 Sep 2019 2:10 UTC
35 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(250bpm.com)

Stanis­lav Petrov Quar­terly Perfor­mance Review

Ricki Heicklen26 Sep 2024 21:20 UTC
145 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(bayesshammai.substack.com)

2024 Petrov Day Retrospective

28 Sep 2024 21:30 UTC
93 points
25 comments10 min readLW link

Petrov Day 2020 Vir­tual Celebration

konstell14 Aug 2020 8:03 UTC
22 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Sur­viv­ing Petrov Day

Mati_Roy26 Sep 2020 16:40 UTC
35 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

On “Not Screw­ing Up Ri­tual Can­dles”

Raemon27 Sep 2020 21:55 UTC
48 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Petrov Day [Spoiler Warn­ing]

lsusr27 Sep 2023 19:20 UTC
6 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

EA Han­gout Pri­son­ers’ Dilemma

Jeffrey Ladish27 Sep 2021 23:15 UTC
55 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

Petrov Day Ret­ro­spec­tive: 2022

Ruby28 Sep 2022 22:16 UTC
107 points
41 comments4 min readLW link

A list of Petrov buttons

philh26 Oct 2022 20:50 UTC
19 points
8 comments5 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

Happy Petrov Day

Eneasz26 Sep 2015 15:41 UTC
19 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

Film about Stanis­lav Petrov

matheist10 Sep 2015 18:43 UTC
25 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Petrov Day Reminder

Eneasz26 Sep 2014 13:57 UTC
15 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

FLI awards prize to Arkhipov’s relatives

ESRogs28 Oct 2017 19:40 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.theguardian.com)

Stanis­lav Petrov has died (2017-05-19)

fortyeridania18 Sep 2017 3:13 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.rt.com)

“God Re­wards Fools”

Czynski30 Apr 2020 22:51 UTC
17 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Austin Petrov Day re­vi­sion, 2023

Austin LW ritual working group16 Sep 2023 21:55 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Linkpost/​Video] All The Times We Nearly Blew Up The World

Jacob G-W23 Sep 2023 1:18 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

Chaotic era: avoid or sur­vive?

Valentin202622 Feb 2021 1:34 UTC
3 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Austin Petrov Day: 6:30pm 9/​26

jchan8 Sep 2020 14:23 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Happy Petrov Day

Eneasz26 Sep 2013 15:08 UTC
25 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

A Child’s Petrov Day Speech

James_Miller28 Sep 2016 2:27 UTC
30 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

So­cially-dis­tanced out­door Petrov Day cer­e­mo­nial manual

jchan24 Aug 2020 14:11 UTC
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

lukeprog15 Nov 2011 14:23 UTC
34 points
108 comments4 min readLW link

Petrov Day is not about unilat­eral action

sen26 Sep 2020 13:41 UTC
25 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Petrov Event Roundup 2020

Raemon24 Sep 2020 21:07 UTC
43 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Vasili Arkhipov Day

David Althaus27 Oct 2011 6:27 UTC
36 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

New Petrov Game Brainstorm

Alexei3 Oct 2019 19:48 UTC
17 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Petrov corrigibility

Stuart_Armstrong11 Sep 2018 13:50 UTC
20 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
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