“Petrov Day 2024: What is a Petrovian virtue?” by Toby Tremlett🔹

An XKCD Petrov Day comic. On the 26th of September, each year, we celebrate Petrov day. Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov was a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defence Force, working at Oko, the Soviet missile defence program. On this day in 1983, during a night shift, Petrov was on duty when his monitor alerted him of a missile inbound from the US. He froze. "The siren howled, but I just sat there for a few seconds, staring at the big, back-lit, red screen with the word 'launch' on it," he says. (source: BBC News interview) More missile warnings came in. It was Petrov's job to trust the computer system and relay its message up the command chain. If he had, the USSR would likely have started a retaliatory strike on the US. But Petrov knew the computer system, and doubted that a true missile warning would have passed through [...] The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration. --- First published: September 26th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/EEfWMKusSfKTwzWRk/petrov-day-2024-what-is-a-petrovian-virtue --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.