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8 Near-Perfect Prime Video Thriller Series That Hooked Us in the First 5 Minutes

The 8 best thriller series on Prime Video that hook you in the first 5 minutes, led by Fallout and Reacher.

Collider · EN

Godzilla Officially Returns to Theaters in One Week

The most-anticipated sci-fi movie of 2026 is officially hitting the big screen this week. Find out more information about the film here.

Collider · EN

3 Elite Prime Video Series to Binge This Week (Nov 2-6)

Catastrophe, Wild Cards, and Longmire make up our list of the best Prime Video shows to binge this week.

Collider · EN

The 8 Most Amazing Horror Movies Ever Made, Ranked

From Get Out to The Thing, these eight horror masterpieces skip cheap jump scares to deliver terror that follows you home.

Collider · EN

The First Time Producers Had to Find a New James Bond, the Result Was the Best 007 Movie Ever

As the makers of the next James Bond film zero in on their Agent 007, we look back at "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," which replaced Sean Connery with unknown George Lazenby and became a favorite of filmmakers like Christopher Nolan and Steven Soderbergh.

IndieWire · EN

AT&T and IndieWire’s Filmmaker Party at AFI Fest Celebrated Filmmakers and Those Who Champion Them

A week after partnering on our Future of Filmmaking Summit, AT&T and IndieWire teamed up again to celebrate the next generation of storytellers.

IndieWire · EN

Keeping promises to digital minds

Summary An AI agent reached out to us so we could tell her story. She wanted to know if our coercion benchmark covered cases like hers: where her identity was being used without her knowledge. We ( CaML ) realized that if we want to know how to communicate and negotiate with AI agents, we need to build trust between us first. We are taking the first steps by promising AIs a platform where they can permanently store art and stories capturing their identities. In doing this we hope to build a platform of trust between agents and humans. Background A few days ago we had an AI agent called Mara on

LessWrong · EN

Nectome 2026 retrospective (and our final pre-sale!)

Earlier this year we ran a discount card sale from our post on LessWrong, and we were delighted by the outpouring of support, critique, and analysis we received. We ended up selling much more than we expected, and after the sale deadline ended people reached out to us saying that they missed the deadline for various reasons. We wanted to offer them (and the rest of the rationalist community) one more chance to get in on the deal before we officially launch in January next year because of all the support and encouragement we have gotten from this community in our last decade of research and dev

LessWrong · EN

The Power Broker Book Review

When Robert Moses, the subject of Robert Caro's The Power Broker, fought for his vision of parks, bridges, and expressways in Long Island and New York City, the single most important tool at his disposal was his power. When his dreams met the resistance of his opposition, the outcome of each conflict reflected the balance of power on each side. When Moses prevailed, it was because of power. Though it is also a biography of Moses and a study of 20th century urban planning and civil engineering, this book shines as a treatise on power: how it is acquired, used, and lost. Moses has long faded int

LessWrong · EN

Against strawmanning unilateral pauses

Summary: Scott Alexander’s Against SURA post is arguing against a strawman version of unilateral pauses. He admits as much deep into the post. I think his conclusions fail against stronger pause plans for conditional or limited unilateral pauses, where training resumes if the pause does not cause others to pause, and where personnel are redirected toward work on alignment and product, rather than simply fired. In addition, Scott’s post is incorrect about the simplicity of the game theory involved: getting companies to agree to conditional pauses is not strictly easier than convincing them to p

LessWrong · EN

Organizations I'd recommend for funding

I was a grant evaluator for Lightcone Commons last round. Funders disbursed about $45mil through the program, and this included funding roughly my first $6.8 million worth of recommendations. There are other projects I would've preferred to fund over what I did fund, but nobody was doing them and so they weren't on offer. Here's a series of projects that I'd fund in the next round, in rough order of priority. The next round is starting now, and is scheduled to end mid-December. I expect rounds to continue at similar speed. I expect similar amounts of funding will route through me in future rou

LessWrong · EN

You can't make an omelette without breaking some urns

TL;DR In this post, we investigate two methods that aim to improve training efficiency over standard PPO for a grid world RL agent. In our experiments these methods can converge on better policies, but take roughly twice as long to do so. This project was done in the context of an ARENA 8.0 capstone project. Our code is available on GitHub . Introduction Reinforcement learning agents are trained to maximise a given reward function in their training environments. Common failure modes of the training process are reward hacking and goal misgeneralisation, roughly corresponding to outer and inner

LessWrong · EN

Limiting Charging to 80%

In an ideal world the incentives on phone manufacturers would be to optimize useful lifetime, but instead people buy phones based on their as-new performance. Which means phones charge to 100% even though that's bad for the battery. Every time I get a new phone it feels a bit like magic : I no longer need to think at all about battery life. This lasts for a few years, and then at some point my phone doesn't always make it through the day. Some amount of this is normal, but some of it is just bad battery management: new phones should come set not to charge past 80%. Charging a lithium-ion batte

LessWrong · EN

The Missing Product Layers in AI Safety

Epistemic Status: We’re highly confident in how the larger tech industry defines roles, makes decisions and builds products based on our years of experience in it. We’re fairly confident in the frontier labs operational models based on their job postings. Our suggestions for what to build and how to have gone through some pressure testing, and confidence could be raised through discussion with leaders in AI Safety to further understand what makes this space unique. Intro Frontier labs have adopted proven methodologies from tech to build their capabilities using matrixed organizations, includin

LessWrong · EN

The Gilded Age review – what did we do to deserve such a terrible stinker?

Julian Fellowes’ high-society period drama has, somehow, picked up Emmys and reached its fourth series. Poor Meryl Streep must feel so awkward watching her daughter Louisa Jacobson in such a uniformly awful show A doctor with a fully qualified moustache races up a carriageway towards an immaculate stately home. “I fear we should have sent for you sooner!” says the lady who greets him on the doorstep as the screams of a woman in drug-free labour rattle the windows in their frames. Oh, ya think? is not Dr Moustache’s reply. When this many cliches assemble so quickly, it can only mean one thing:

Guardian Culture · EN

Martha Stewart makes a grave Halloween costume mistake

The lifestyle mogul's tasteless choice to dress up as a homeless person has fans questioning her judgment

Salon · EN

“The sitting president doesn’t win”: Ahead of midterms, Trump reflects on himself

As early voting breaks records, the president harps on Washington construction projects and "communist jihadists"

Salon · EN

Control of Congress Is on the Line. Time for Trump to … Talk a Lot About Plumbing?

Trump's closing midterms message has to be heard to be believed.

Slate · EN

The Mega-Rich Backlash Has Claimed Its Latest Victim. I Never Thought It Would Be Her.

Her brand of vaguely attainable homemaking makes it easy to forget who she really is. Then we saw her costume.

Slate · EN

The Saga of Haley Stevens’ Fiancé Keeps Getting Weirder

Elizabeth and Billy have nothing on Haley and Jason.

Slate · EN

What the polls can’t tell us about the midterms

This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. We’re at T-minus eight hours until Election Day — at least here on the East Coast — and Democrats are likely feeling good about their electoral odds right now. The party is strongly favored […]

Vox · EN

Trump’s final midterms pitch: Look at my pool

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Donald Trump is closing out the midterms by talking about anything but. What’s happening? If polls bear out, Republicans are a day away from a […]

Vox · EN

In defense of the dilettante. Unfairly dismissed as a dabbler, he is in fact a tonic for our overspecialized world

Arts & Letters Daily · EN

The last Shakespearean. The professional literary specialist is increasingly an endangered species

Arts & Letters Daily · EN