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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.

LessWrong 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, 9/26)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