Geoffrey Miller on Twitter: "Everybody almost died in global thermonuclear war on Sept 26 1983. This lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces kept a false alarm from escalating into a Russian retaliatory attack that could have unleashed hell on Earth. Kudos to @FLIxrisk for celebrating him.… https://t.co/BgLkv6PmV1"

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Everybody almost died in global thermonuclear war on Sept 26 1983. This lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces kept a false alarm from escalating into a Russian retaliatory attack that could have unleashed hell on Earth. Kudos to @FLIxrisk for celebrating him.https://twitter.com/tegmark/status/1044950327332667392 …

Max Tegmark @tegmark

I'm excited that we were able to give a $50k award to the family of Stanislav #Petrov, thanks to whom today isn't the 35 aniversary of WWIII. https://futureoflife.org/2018/09/26/50000-award-to-stanislav-petrov-for-helping-avert-wwiii-but-us-denies-visa/?cn-reloaded=1 … pic.twitter.com/TNfK0JpQVU

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1. Craig Healy‏ @craigjhealy1 26 Sep 2018
  
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  Tegmark, in Life 3.0, mentioned both near-misses avoided by human "inefficiencies" in Soviet defense capabilities that will certainly be streamlined to guarantee our demise when AI optimizes defense. Does FLI have a plan to re-boot a sane civilization following a CME?
  
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1. Simon Platman‏ @simonplatman 27 Sep 2018
  
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  Hey, I’m a survivor!
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1. Bitgeiniog (Welsh for #Bitcoin)‏ @bitgeiniog 7 Oct 2018
  
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  The fear of dying horribly in a nuclear war with just 4 minutes’ warning kept me awake at night in the 1980s. I hadn’t realised how close we actually got.
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1. CryptoWales‏ @CryptoWales 8 Oct 2018
  
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  That’s mad
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1. Ivan Z‏ @Apeonomics 26 Sep 2018
  
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  The Russian submarine commander Vasili Arkhipov should also get credit for preventing an all out nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
  
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1. LevelToPower‏ @LevelToPower 26 Sep 2018
  
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  We also need the Thermonuclear Darwin award for people who hasten WWIII with their stupiditypic.twitter.com/sHa1iGsLKn
  
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