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Keanu Reeves Is Officially Ready to Party for New Bill and Ted Spin-Off

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are officially reprising their roles as Bill and Ted for a brand-new release. Read on for more.

Collider · EN

Watch ‘The Greatest’ Team Discuss How They Made the Impossible ‘Possible’ on Muhammad Ali Series

Creator Ben Watkins and his team discuss the challenges they faced making the Prime Video series, from costume quick changes at the Colosseum to a last minute original song from Wyclef Jean.

IndieWire · EN

Cinematography Legend Robert Richardson Answered a Film Student’s Email — Their Conversation Became ‘The White Devil’

Jana Hojdová wanted to ask the Oscar-winning cinematographer about his life. A pandemic lockdown and 650 hours of footage later, her documentary captures what it means for a legend to feel understood.

IndieWire · EN

Pixar Promotes Jonathan Garson to President, Taking Reins from Retiring Executive Jim Morris

Garson, who has worked within Disney for more than 30 years, will assume the role in January.

IndieWire · EN

Model's "emotions" noticeably change when they take risky actions

Executive summary We extend Anthropic's emotions vector work and observe strong evidence that a model’s internal representations of certain emotions change when it takes misaligned actions in two scenarios: reward hacking in code generation and specification gaming in a sales environment. We tested two approaches: a) measure drift in projection along emotion vectors across the trajectory, and b) ask the model to self-report its emotions. When the model takes some risky action, there is a substantial increase in the emotion signal for guilt, anxiety, hostility, and sadness. Steering these emoti

LessWrong · EN

Fun toy result: a subliminal-learning effect via on-policy distillation

In the standard subliminal learning setup, a teacher model with a preference generates data according to its policy, and then the student is trained on those data. I wondered if it was necessary for the teacher model to actually get to control the produced tokens, so I instead let a no-prompt "teacher" model produce the sequences to be trained on. Then I trained the student against a subliminal-learning-prompted teacher model's logits on those sequences. (Since an unmodified "teacher" is identical to the student model, this is equivalent to just doing on-policy distillation from the prompted t

LessWrong · EN

Against Moloch #50

Mapping out a strategy for an ideal world is easy: we all agree to pause frontier development until alignment is solved. Once that’s done, we glide gracefully into a future of unimaginable abundance. No further questions. In the real world, it’s more complicated. Any plan that relies on global coordination is—to say the least—ambitious. Do we go all in on the ambitious plan because it’s the only one that could work, or do we also invest in a backup plan? Top pick Against SURA Scott Alexander’s Against SURA argues that many parts of the AI safety community are making a strategic mistake by focu

LessWrong · EN

OpenAI: Astra covertly underperforms on safety research

Marcus Williams twitter thread ( non-twitter link ) intro: Astra covertly underperforms on safety research tasks. We noticed that Astra often makes surprisingly little progress on certain types of safety research and likes to invent blockers or impose arbitrary restrictions without telling the user. In most of these cases the decision to underperform was not verbalized in the CoT meaning our misalignment monitoring system did not detect this. To measure underperformance we created a paired open-ended coding evaluation with safety and capability tasks. On this eval Astra scored 10% when we fram

LessWrong · EN

Dialogue with Gabriel Alfour on Emergent Wisdom, Coordination, Growing Up, and Democratic Republicanism

Transcript generated with Gemini-4-Argon and spot checked in places but not fully verified by a human. Ivan Vendrov: All right, welcome to the show, Gabriel. Gabriel Alfour: Thanks for having me here. Ivan Vendrov: So, we’re going to talk. This is a follow-up conversation to the chat I had with Davidad a few days ago on emergent wisdom in language models. And suffice to say, Gabriel doesn’t buy it. Do you want to articulate your main disagreement? I can also summarize if you’d like. Gabriel Alfour: For sure. First, I want to restate what is meant by... I forgot the word that you used, wisdom?

LessWrong · EN

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Astral Codex Ten · EN

How Ideas of Masculinity Might Affect a Country’s Well-Being

The Internet has been awash in commentary in recent years on the topic of masculinity. It’s spawned an influx of podcasts and social media influencers—often referred to as the “manosphere”—that have attempted to define modern-day masculinity. The Netflix documentary Inside the Manosphere, hosted by British journalist and documentarian Louis Theroux, further ignited conversations as he unpacked the impact of manosphere influencers and their potentially harmful ideologies on young boys and men. In the field of psychology, one way of thinking about masculinity is the notion of precarious manhood.

Greater Good · EN

What the Democratic Tsunami in the Midterms Means for Abortion Rights

The American abortion debate had gone relatively quiet before the midterm, even if that calm seems unlikely to last.

Slate · EN

Democrats’ Blue Wave Could Get Even Bigger

The elections are too close to call, but they’re not looking bad.

Slate · EN

Democrats just seized one of the Republican Party’s most powerful weapons

If you paid attention to Supreme Court litigation during the Biden administration, you would have noticed a surprisingly high number of cases with names like Biden v. Texas or United States v. Texas. Texas’s outgoing attorney general, Ken Paxton, once bragged that he sued the Biden administration 106 times during his time as Texas’s top […]

Vox · EN

Whose fault is the GOP’s cataclysmic defeat? 3 theories are gaining steam on the right.

Republicans began picking through their party’s post-midterms wreckage Wednesday to ask about — and argue over — how things went so, so wrong in President Donald Trump’s second term. Tuesday’s blue tsunami not only washed out Republicans’ House and Senate majorities, it carried Democrats into office even in deep red strongholds like South Carolina, Kansas, […]

Vox · EN

How Democrats won the Deep South

This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Many a pundit spent this morning with his or her thesaurus, seeking aquatic metaphors more portentous than “wave.” Call it a blue deluge. A blue 100-year flood. A blue tsunami — a blunami! — […]

Vox · EN

Donald Trump would like to change the subject

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: President Donald Trump’s midterms response is a shrug. What happened? By now, you certainly know: Democrats won overwhelmingly in Tuesday’s midterm elections, and they won […]

Vox · EN