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I’ve heard this effect called the “Bach Faucet”—when things wonderful and rare become so commonplace, we lose what made them meaningful originally.
by mcphage 3y ago
I’ve heard this effect called the “Bach Faucet”—when things wonderful and rare become so commonplace, we lose what made them meaningful originally.
- chongli 3y agoPretty funny. I just did a search for "Mozart Faucet" and found a lot of bathroom fixtures. The poor old composer must be spinning in his grave! If this is the thesis we're looking at, then AI is only the latest straw on the pile. We've been killing our sense of awe for well over a century, through all of the generations of mass media. Anything with even the slightest amount of salience has been commoditized. We are a consumer culture with an insatiable appetite for novelty.
- mcphage 3y agoThat was my mistake, sorry—I misremembered the composer. It was a “Bach Faucet”, coined by Kate Compton.
- yamrzou 3y agoThanks, here is where it originated: https://twitter.com/GalaxyKate/status/1583907942834716672 https://twitter.com/GalaxyKate/status/1583907942834716672
- chongli 3y agoSearching for that one leads to bathroom fixtures as well. You can’t win anymore! Search engines are almost completely useless now!
- mcphage 3y agoI read an older story to my kids recently, and the plot hinged upon a kid getting a stomachache from eating cucumbers and milk at the same time. And that seemed surprising (since my kids do that all the time), so of course I googled for it, and ended up in a morass of blogspam garbage… they really have turned to shit.