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This is your reminder that on this date, in 1983, Stanislav Petrov saved the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
Thanks @dhw for the reminder https://infosec.exchange/@dhw/115271324615674363
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Excellent piece, thank you. As you say, ever more important in the age of mindless AI.
" [ehen things don't line up] we need to pursue these anomalies to understand why."
Indeed, alertness to slight dissonances is key to maintaining agency, in so many contexts.
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On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov, an engineer of the Soviet Air Defence Forces, prevented an all out nuclear war.
"First, it was just one missile, but then another, and another, until the system reported that a total of five Minuteman ICBMs had been launched."
(Article from 2018) https://www.vox.com/2018/9/26/17905796/nuclear-war-1983-stanislav-petrov-soviet-union
Via @wikipediaOTD
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Forty years ago Stanislav Petrov saved civilisation from a dodgy computer system.
#StanislavPetrov #OTD #1983 #AI #computing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov -
"Happy birthday to all of us" one could say.
#stanislavpetrov #nowar #peace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident -
TIL about Stanislav Petrov, who saved the world from nuclear war in 1983 by choosing to believe that a warning that the USA had launched a nuclear missile at Russia was a false alarm (he was right)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Sovi…
#StanislavPetrov #nuclearwar
