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The problem with the question is that it reduces an infinite dimensional space (all the things you could have thought about the movie) into a single scalar value. Your mind is likely to be preoccupied with performing that projection which is fundamentally uninteresting.

It’s like asking “Is the pharmaceutical industry good or bad?” vs. “How should the pharmaceutical industry participate in society over the next 20 years?”



It's ok to ask follow-up Why questions.


What do you think about follow-up questions?


But the opening of a conversation influences the rest of it. It's like the old experiment about guessing the number of countries in Africa.




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