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  • The most fun way to understand the benefits of this in my opinion is to check out how crazy powerful and surprising software digital synthesizers and effects can sound and then think about how offloading any kind of digital synthesis/processing to analog means is free computing cycles from the digital perspective.

    If you tried to capture the surface of a swimming pool along with measurements of momentum and then use a digital algorithm to predict how the surface will fluctuate (assuming no further disturbances beyond boundary conditions) it would be very quickly a computationally overwhelming task… but a real swimming pool just keeps on doing it endlessly.










  • This is an echo chamber

    This is the opposite of an echo chamber

    At the level of physics, the absorption process simply involves small, microscopic particles. Acoustic foam is a material with an open-cell structure that allows sound waves to enter a network of small, interconnected air pockets. The air molecules must vibrate and collide with the foam’s fibrous structure as they pass through these pores.

    https://www.china-sandwichpanel.com/how-does-soundproof-foam-work/

    The “echo chamber” metaphor is almost exclusively used to incorrectly portray communities with a structure like open cell foam with many smaller semiconnected communities as prone to producing echoes when it is the precise opposite structure of large open cavernous spaces bounded by hard surfaces (groups where everyone is always talking to everyone else equally) that produce overpowering echoes best.

    Fragmentation does not produce echoes, creating large silos bounded by thick inflexible surfaces does.




  • I like to boil reality down to something really basic: the left (liberal, whatever) pushes us toward progress, which is good, but bad if it’s blind. The right (conservative) tests whether that progress can hold up. So both sides balance the world, at least in my naive little worldview.

    You CANNOT boil things down to that basic of a narrative.

    The right ACTIVELY SABOTAGES the left and advocates for violence and oppression of leftist movements all over the world.

    Your axiomatic assertion here is naive and worse it involves you projecting something you desperately want to be true onto a reality that doesn’t fit.

    What do you mean by “balance” anyways? Deadlock? Performative division masking lockstep conformity?