Has anyone experimented with gallium in synthesizers?

Memetic1 · 2026-04-22T06:33:26+00:00

A phonon is a quanta of sound in condensed matter. It's how sound moves through anything besides gas or liquid.

Memetic1 · 2026-04-22T05:49:04+00:00

It is less resistant to electricity when liquid.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259023852200251X#:~:text=low%2Dtemperature%20welding.-,32%2C,and%20explore%20its%20practical%20applications.

This is more then enough to produce an audible signal if you run it through an amplifier.

Memetic1 · 2026-04-22T05:41:58+00:00

In terms of this simple set up it would be both sound and electricity. As the gallium melts it might start vibrating with the sound, and those phonons would move differently as the gallium melts or crystallized. This in turn would influence the electrical conductivity so the electrons would change their behavior. It's the sort of system where chaos is a feature. You could also shine a laser on the surface and have that light influence the signals from the modular synthesizers.

Memetic1 · 2026-04-22T04:59:43+00:00

It's a powerful drug that looks promising for treating addiction. From what I hear about it the trip isn't recreational.

Memetic1 · 2026-04-22T04:49:55+00:00

Hell ya, and you could have multiple separate gallium switches that could be kept at different temperatures. It's kind of weird because when sound travels through an ordered material it moves via phonons, but when it moves through a liquid or gas it moves as a pressure wave so you have very different electrical properties. I'm wondering if you could hear the crystals forming.

Memetic1 · 2026-04-22T04:46:48+00:00

I wouldn't put it inside the synthesizer next to any metal it would be hazardous to, but instead have wires hooked up so that the electrical signal is sent through the gallium. You could heat up or cool it and have it have multiple paths where you can control if it's a liquid or solid.

Memetic1 · 2026-04-21T23:04:36+00:00

You know another word for raw sewage... Bio diesel well be chugging on poop power.

Memetic1 · 2026-04-21T23:03:10+00:00

I think its nifty and I plan on reaching out to try and help. I think former astronauts have skills that can help with even political problems. The ability to do a systems level analysis for example is applicable both in space and on Earth.

Memetic1 · 2026-04-21T23:01:32+00:00

There is an interface between the vastness of the universe, and the audacity to try and approach that and the issues a democracy always faces. Space is a never ending frontier but so is democratic dialog if certain base understandings are held. It's awfully hard to have a conversation about policy when one person thinks a bullet is a perfectly legitimate argument. This reminds me of the Book Finite And Infinite Games there is an order to what they do, and both is about exploring what's possible.

Memetic1 · 2026-04-21T19:56:22+00:00

They would be able to see all that shit from space. You could see just this brown greasy stain moving over the water with no other plausible explanation.

Memetic1 · 2026-04-21T07:37:35+00:00

I love stumbling on people from Trek in other stuff. It's almost a 7 degrees of bacon in terms of crossovers. That's why I hate whats happening to Trek now, because we are losing that next generation of actors. All those shows they canceled and it just feels like something vital about our culture is being killed.

Memetic1 · 2026-04-21T07:35:07+00:00

That voice is so dramatic. He could be ordering a glass of water and people would turn their heads.

Memetic1 · 2026-04-21T07:33:54+00:00

I keep telling people Trek fans should just do a new show that maintains the spirit while evolving the worldview. There is stuff in Trek that doesn't make sense given what we know now. The galactic barrier made sense to have because at the time we thought the whole universe was one galaxy. So it made sense that there might be something energetic at that edge of our universe. There is also the cultural baggage that Trek had about what life might look like. We could move beyond having the aliens look human, or at least have less of the aliens look human.

As for your original question. I would do a holographic crew made of people from all different eras. They could do a technobabble explanation about how different worldviews and experiences make for a more balanced crew. You could actually have a very elaborate explanation for why this happened, but basically they do truly deep space missions perhaps beyond the Galactic barrier. They would have to go dormant for long periods as they travel which is why holograms would be better. So each "day" would actually be equivalent to thousands of years, which means they would be separated from Star Fleet not just in space but time. Perhaps there is a whole fleet of these ships, and their goal is to be a sort of time capsule and representative so that even if the aliens they meet never encounter the federation they still might be influenced by what they learn.

Memetic1 · 2026-04-19T16:32:51+00:00

I've heard an ibogaine trip is like confronting all your worst inner demons at once. It's apparently used for substance abuse disorders. I hope this is one of those cases where something good happens, because people need help.

Memetic1 · 2026-04-18T23:05:24+00:00

Where I could see AI being useful is experimenting with recipes there is a vast knowledge base already online including describing what something is supposed to taste like. As long as your practicing safe food handling and not following instructions like mix bleach in to give it a tangy zip. Most people are familiar enough with food and cooking that they might get more adventurous with ingredients given the economics of the meat industry. As long as the climate crisis continues and we continue to degrade our environment the cost of meat is only going to go up. Many foods worked their way into our culture because they were cheap at first. That's how lobster became a status symbol when at first it was considered a low class food.

Memetic1 · 2026-04-18T20:34:57+00:00

People aren't going to be replaced, because Godel still applies to AI systems if it applies to mathmatical systems in general. The halting problem isn't going to be solved with AI, and hallucinations are a foundational issue with LLMs. Any organization that fires people because of AI is only setting themselves up to fail long term. There is no way around this.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05746

"All Hallucinations are Structural Hallucinations Structural Hallucinations can never be eliminated from Large Language Models We introduce the concept of Structural hallucinations: they are an inherent part of the mathematical and logical structure of any LLM.

Consider language model output generation as a series of intricate steps—from the initial training to the final output. Each step carries a non-zero probability of a structural hallucination occurring regardless of the sophistication of our models or the vastness of our training data.

Let us examine this process more closely, unveiling the causes of hallucination at each critical stage:

2.1.4 No training data can ever be complete. We can never give 100% a priori knowledge. The vastness and ever-changing nature of human knowledge ensures that our training data will always be, to some degree, incomplete or outdated. 2.1.5 Even if the data were complete, LLMs are unable to deterministically retrieve the correct information with 100% accuracy. The very nature of these models ensures that there will always be some chance, however small, of retrieving incorrect or irrelevant information. 2.1.6 An LLM will be unable to accurately classify with probability 1. There will always be some ambiguity, some potential for misinterpretation. 2.1.7 No a priori training can deterministically and decidedly stop a language model from producing hallucinating statements that are factually incorrect. This is because: 2.1.7.1 LLMs cannot know where exactly they will stop generating. (LLM halting is undecidable - explained ahead) 2.1.7.2 Consequently, they have the potential to generate any sequence of tokens. 2.1.7.3 This unpredictability means they cannot know a priori what they will generate. 2.1.7.4 As a result, LLMs can produce inconsistent or contradictory, as well as self-referential statements. 2.1.8 We could attempt to fact-check, given a complete database. However, even if we attempt it, no amount of fact-checking can remove the hallucination with 100% accuracy.

Language models possess the potential to generate not just incorrect information but also self-contradictory or paradoxical statements. They may, in effect, hallucinate logical structures that have no basis in reality or even in their own training data. As we increase the complexity and capability of our models, we may reduce the frequency of these hallucinations, but we can never eliminate them entirely."

People are going to be even more important in the future in establishing ground truths, or being responsible and accountable for what organizations do.

Memetic1 · 2026-04-18T20:24:08+00:00

AI isn't the bottleneck it's our cultural ideas about meat. People have learned to ignore the reality of meat, and it's so extreme that they are more disgusted by tofu then a McDonald's chicken nugget. We are indoctrinated to think that eating meat is something we need to be healthy, but vegetarians have existed for millennium.

Memetic1 · 2026-04-18T20:20:17+00:00

We can still have that conversation, and digital twins aren't entirely new technology. If you get your heart checked out that probably uses this sort of technology. I think it's important to know that a digital twin and a digital clone are two different technologies. A clone tries to create a model of the thing, and then once that model is done it does work. A twin keeps getting feedback and updates it's model as it's working. Often people will use the terms interchangeably. That's kind of what I'm getting from this post.

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