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Petrov Day

TagLast edit: Sep 30, 2024, 4:59 AM 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 YudkowskySep 26, 2007, 4:14 PM
276 points
64 comments2 min readLW link

Modes of Petrov Day

RaemonSep 17, 2019, 2:47 AM
69 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

Petrov Day is Septem­ber 26

jimrandomhSep 18, 2014, 2:55 AM
32 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Honor­ing Petrov Day on LessWrong, in 2020

Ben PaceSep 26, 2020, 8:01 AM
117 points
100 comments3 min readLW link

Post­mortem to Petrov Day, 2020

Ben PaceOct 3, 2020, 9:30 PM
97 points
63 comments9 min readLW link

An Idea for a More Com­mu­nal Petrov Day in 2022

Ben PaceOct 21, 2021, 9:51 PM
44 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

LW Petrov Day 2022 (Mon­day, 9/​26)

RubySep 22, 2022, 2:56 AM
120 points
111 comments5 min readLW link

[Com­pleted] The 2024 Petrov Day Scenario

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

Petrov Day Ret­ro­spec­tive: 2021

RubyOct 21, 2021, 9:50 PM
80 points
43 comments9 min readLW link

Petrov Day 2021: Mu­tu­ally As­sured Destruc­tion?

RubySep 22, 2021, 1:04 AM
99 points
96 comments4 min readLW link

On De­stroy­ing the World

Chris_LeongSep 28, 2020, 7:38 AM
82 points
86 comments5 min readLW link

Fol­low-Up to Petrov Day, 2019

Ben PaceSep 27, 2019, 11:47 PM
78 points
20 comments3 min readLW link

Honor­ing Petrov Day on LessWrong, in 2019

Ben PaceSep 26, 2019, 9:10 AM
137 points
168 comments4 min readLW link

Rus­sian Food for Petrov Day

weftSep 4, 2022, 5:57 PM
17 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

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

RubySep 28, 2023, 2:48 AM
66 points
73 comments6 min readLW link

Stanis­lav Petrov Day

gwernSep 26, 2011, 2:49 PM
46 points
167 comments1 min readLW link

Happy Petrov Day!

Martin SustrikSep 27, 2019, 2:10 AM
35 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(250bpm.com)

Stanis­lav Petrov Quar­terly Perfor­mance Review

Ricki HeicklenSep 26, 2024, 9:20 PM
146 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(bayesshammai.substack.com)

2024 Petrov Day Retrospective

Sep 28, 2024, 9:30 PM
93 points
25 comments10 min readLW link

Petrov Day 2020 Vir­tual Celebration

konstellAug 14, 2020, 8:03 AM
22 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Sur­viv­ing Petrov Day

Mati_RoySep 26, 2020, 4:40 PM
35 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

On “Not Screw­ing Up Ri­tual Can­dles”

RaemonSep 27, 2020, 9:55 PM
48 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Petrov Day [Spoiler Warn­ing]

lsusrSep 27, 2023, 7:20 PM
6 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

EA Han­gout Pri­son­ers’ Dilemma

Jeffrey LadishSep 27, 2021, 11:15 PM
55 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

Petrov Day Ret­ro­spec­tive: 2022

RubySep 28, 2022, 10:16 PM
107 points
41 comments4 min readLW link

A list of Petrov buttons

philhOct 26, 2022, 8:50 PM
19 points
8 comments5 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

Happy Petrov Day

EneaszSep 26, 2015, 3:41 PM
19 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

Film about Stanis­lav Petrov

matheistSep 10, 2015, 6:43 PM
25 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Petrov Day Reminder

EneaszSep 26, 2014, 1:57 PM
15 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

FLI awards prize to Arkhipov’s relatives

ESRogsOct 28, 2017, 7:40 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.theguardian.com)

Stanis­lav Petrov has died (2017-05-19)

fortyeridaniaSep 18, 2017, 3:13 AM
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.rt.com)

“God Re­wards Fools”

CzynskiApr 30, 2020, 10:51 PM
17 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Austin Petrov Day re­vi­sion, 2023

Austin LW ritual working groupSep 16, 2023, 9:55 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

Jacob G-WSep 23, 2023, 1:18 AM
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

Chaotic era: avoid or sur­vive?

Valentin2026Feb 22, 2021, 1:34 AM
3 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Austin Petrov Day: 6:30pm 9/​26

jchanSep 8, 2020, 2:23 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Happy Petrov Day

EneaszSep 26, 2013, 3:08 PM
25 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

A Child’s Petrov Day Speech

James_MillerSep 28, 2016, 2:27 AM
30 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

So­cially-dis­tanced out­door Petrov Day cer­e­mo­nial manual

jchanAug 24, 2020, 2:11 PM
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

lukeprogNov 15, 2011, 2:23 PM
34 points
108 comments4 min readLW link

Petrov Day is not about unilat­eral action

senSep 26, 2020, 1:41 PM
25 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Petrov Event Roundup 2020

RaemonSep 24, 2020, 9:07 PM
43 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Vasili Arkhipov Day

David AlthausOct 27, 2011, 6:27 AM
36 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

New Petrov Game Brainstorm

AlexeiOct 3, 2019, 7:48 PM
17 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Petrov corrigibility

Stuart_ArmstrongSep 11, 2018, 1:50 PM
20 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
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