![]() An anonymity-preserving database check confirmed that it was a user with 0 karma who had launched the missiles. September 25, 11:51 PM: Oliver Habryka is suspicious that there is a bug in the code and he digs into it, uncovering that indeed, due to an error in the logic, any user with 0 karma (and exactly 0 karma) was already able to launch nukes and destroy the frontpage. The karma threshold is 2,100 and there are 290 users with that much karma or more. September 25, 10:55:04 PM: The frontpage is nuked after 2 hours and 55 minutes. This reveals that incompetence on occasion might even save you from destruction. Understandably, no one spoke up to point out the absence of code – that would be hella suspicious. Without the code, no one can nuke the site. September 25: 9:05 PM: I am reminded by others at LessWrong that I was supposed to publish the launch code in the comments. Any users with greater than 2,300 karma could press the button. ![]() ![]() September 25, 8:00 PM: Petrov Day celebration commences. ![]() I was in a rush because I leaving for EA Global DC. September, 21, 5:43 PM Pacific Time: I write the code that determines whether a user is authorized to launch. This is a follow-up to the Petrov Day commemoration of 2022 ![]()
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