One other difference between ‘this thing we have’ and ‘that thing Petrov had’ is that the day was entirely ordinary for him.
We live in our bubble where we have a High Stakes Day on which we are given a very specific choice. We expect it… we anticipate it; we can turn it into a game or even worse than a game. He had expected a normal shift at work (and beyond that we should no more assign thoughts to him than to a man who decided to buy a specific kind of sandwich. Just because we are more drawn to visualizing something beautiful doesn’t make us any less wrong about it.)
I propose to deconstruct the tradition. Make it a random day, send codes to random people, and don’t explain what will happen beyond “the site will go down for 24 hours”.
One other difference between ‘this thing we have’ and ‘that thing Petrov had’ is that the day was entirely ordinary for him.
We live in our bubble where we have a High Stakes Day on which we are given a very specific choice. We expect it… we anticipate it; we can turn it into a game or even worse than a game. He had expected a normal shift at work (and beyond that we should no more assign thoughts to him than to a man who decided to buy a specific kind of sandwich. Just because we are more drawn to visualizing something beautiful doesn’t make us any less wrong about it.)
I propose to deconstruct the tradition. Make it a random day, send codes to random people, and don’t explain what will happen beyond “the site will go down for 24 hours”.
I like this idea. It also adds the political element back into the equation. Rather than Petrov Day, we have Petrov Protocols.