From Narrow To General AI
1 min readMay 22, 2024

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Perhaps, and I personally define "good movies" by coherence and singleness of vision and message.

The purpose of this post is not about the "truth" of what makes a good movie, whatever that may be, but about where the concept comes from. Your notion of a "good movie" appeared in your mind long before you had developed a clear set of criteria for one. I had that concept in my childhood and teens, long before I began to study film theory. So to say that our impression comes from all that detailed criteria is a red herring.

Educated models of film criticism are an after the fact evaluation of what might possibly pull them together. As an analogy, we first learn about types of metals by their useful macro-properties ("iron" is heavy, "brass" is malleable, etc), and only much later understand their atomic composition. So to say that we get the concepts of iron and brass based on their atomic composition is to put the cart before the horse, as if someone who didn't understand atomic theory could never differentiate between iron and brass.

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From Narrow To General AI
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