It’s Petrov week! Reminder, if you are running a local Petrov meetup of some kind, you can create a LW event and click the “Petrov” button (next to the “LW” “SSC” etc buttons), to have it show up on the meetup map.
If you don’t want it to be fully public, I recommend putting in the city location and some kind of contact-info so people can ping you, and you can make a call as to whether you have room for more people, or whether you think the people reaching out would be good for your event vibe.
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I do think the Petrov Day ceremony is a pretty nice experience. It feels like… a real holiday? Like, I’ve attended Jewish Seders and it’s got a very similar vibe of “we’re here to appreciate our history and some values we care about.”
Jim’s latest version [edit: updated to be the correct one for printing doublesided] of the booklet works to bridge the connection between the long arc of history (i.e. appreciate what might be lost), the Petrov incident in particular, and current worries about x-risk from AI.
If you’re less into AI, you might also look at Ozy Brennan’s version, which focuses more directly on nuclear war.
And it’ll also be a nicer experience if you get the booklet printed at Fedex-or-similar, where you can have it more nicely collated into a proper booklet.
It’s Petrov week! Reminder, if you are running a local Petrov meetup of some kind, you can create a LW event and click the “Petrov” button (next to the “LW” “SSC” etc buttons), to have it show up on the meetup map.
(You can also click this link to have it automatically populated with the Petrov tag)
If you don’t want it to be fully public, I recommend putting in the city location and some kind of contact-info so people can ping you, and you can make a call as to whether you have room for more people, or whether you think the people reaching out would be good for your event vibe.
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I do think the Petrov Day ceremony is a pretty nice experience. It feels like… a real holiday? Like, I’ve attended Jewish Seders and it’s got a very similar vibe of “we’re here to appreciate our history and some values we care about.”
Jim’s latest version [edit: updated to be the correct one for printing doublesided] of the booklet works to bridge the connection between the long arc of history (i.e. appreciate what might be lost), the Petrov incident in particular, and current worries about x-risk from AI.
If you’re less into AI, you might also look at Ozy Brennan’s version, which focuses more directly on nuclear war.
Reminder that you’ll want to get some candles (I recommend getting these candles, with these candle holders. (I personally like having two fancier candles representing the flourishing and extinction futures, such as this one for flourishing and this one for extinction)
And it’ll also be a nicer experience if you get the booklet printed at Fedex-or-similar, where you can have it more nicely collated into a proper booklet.