<div dir="ltr">And so this brave and sensible Russian chose not to let the world get blown up, and yet no one here responded to your post?  SHAME!!!!!!  SHAME!!!!!!!  SHAME ON ALL OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!  <div><br></div><div>We are enjoying our very non-apocalyptic world because of him....</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>John  :  )<br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 6:22 AM, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Almost a gigasecond ago, 31 years to the day, Stanislav Petrov choose to disregard warnings of an imminent nuclear attack, correctly guessing they were a computer error. By doing that he likely saved the world as we know it. Let's celebrate those who stand up to reduce existential risk!<div><br></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov</a></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident</a></div><div><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24280831" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24280831</a><br><div><br><br>Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University</div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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