Oddbean new post about login | logout "And then I made my decision. I would not trust the computer." If you ever wonder if one obscure person's actions questioning the system can change the course of history for the better, today's 40-year anniversary of Lt. Colonel Stanislav Petrov averting global nuclear disaster is a good reminder. Petrov died in 2017, but the BBC talked to him in 2013 on the 30th anniversary: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-24280831