Vaniver comments on Stanislav Petrov Day - Less Wrong

35 Post author: gwern 26 September 2011 02:49PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (164)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Vaniver 28 September 2011 03:30:30PM 4 points [-]

It has worked once: the Ismailis managed to win freedom from Persia using this method. I do not know how often it has been tried.