Simon Michelet

And a nothing that gets pretty real ...

Programming used to be about remembering syntax and patterns. Now it's about forgetting - outsourcing mental processes to AI. But what happens when the AI forgets everything between sessions?

martinburckhardt.substack.com/p/claude-mon...

Bibliotheken haben sich mehr verändert als Verlage. Beide haben mit dem Digitalen zu kämpfen, aber nur eine hat verstanden, dass ihr Wert nicht im Medium liegt, sondern im Raum fürs Denken. Was haben Verlage übersehen?

We treat AI like magic authority. Wrong approach. Claude is "stochastic reasoning" - a mirror for productive inner dialogue. The key? Never surrender fundamental responsibility for what you're building.

DonQuixoteRedivivus

Computers aren't just tools anymore—they're our new collective unconscious. We dream of "anything, anywhere, anytime" while feeling more powerless than ever. Burckhardt calls this our digital Don Quixote moment.
https://martinburckhardt.substack.com/p/schnee-von-gestern

Is it a compliment to say that a logician is not insane?
martinburckhardt.substack.com/p/a-short-hi...

How we turned into Dividuals The Psychology of Nuclear Fission

And here's Martin Burckhardt's essay
martinburckhardt.substack.com/p/how-we-tur...

The atom split in 1945. The same scientists who cracked the atom gave us the internet.
Now we desperately cling to fixed identities because deep down, we know we're coming apart.
The solution? Accepting the cracks.
As Leonard Cohen said: "That's how the light gets in."

🤖 Die KI-Revolution ist nicht mehr aufzuhalten. Die Frage ist: Gestalten wir sie aktiv mit oder lassen wir sie über uns hinwegfegen? Zeit für eine ehrliche Debatte über die Zukunft der Technologie.

A few comments on why the image production of artificial intelligence highlights the monotony of our fantasies ...
simonmichelet1.substack.com/p/serendipity

The Human Touch and why this is the starting point for all aesthetics

A little piece I wrote about the human touch and why it's the beginning of all aesthetics ...
simonmichelet1.substack.com/p/the-human-...

Wie sich Konusmenten in Apokalyptiker verwandeln und das Stromnetz im Namen des Gemeinwohls lahmlegen
martinburckhardt.substack.com/p/apocalypse...

The Psychology of Catastrophe Lovers Listen now | Why it's best not to be born

If you want to how people could attack the Berlin power supply in the name of the common good
martinburckhardt.substack.com/p/the-psycho...

manu

"The art of failure might be more important than the art of success."

This hit me reading about AI education. We're teaching perfection when we should be teaching curiosity.

Maybe unlearning is the new learning?

Artificial intelligence - how to rev up a dream machine (and reanimate Sigmund Freud)
martinburckhardt.substack.com/p/the-electr...

Something Is Making Humanoid Robot Makers Worry: The Robots Suck The Wall Street Journal’s Sean McLain reported Sunday on the recent Humanoids Summit in Mountain View, California held earlier this month. McLain seems to have come away with the impression that makers of robots are worried they’ve oversold a technology that, well, sucks. So far anyway. Sure, Elon Musk is promising a robot army, and there’s now some kind of robot butler being preordered by rich people who are expected to pay $20,000 essentially just to help train it.

Something Is Making Humanoid Robot Makers Worry: The Robots Suck

The Wall Street Journal’s Sean McLain reported Sunday on the recent Humanoids Summit in Mountain View, California held earlier this month. McLain seems to have come away with the impression that makers of robots are worried they’ve…

How we turned into Free Floating Radicals ...
martinburckhardt.substack.com/p/i-am-your-...

Die Frage ist, ob wir noch dieselben Menschen sind, der wir vor den Smartphones waren? Was, wenn wir nicht mehr "Individuen“ wären, sondern miteinander vernetzt. Und was bedeutet das für unser Denken, Fühlen und Schaffen? martinburckhardt.substack.com/p/portrat-de...

It's too funny how the AI shimmies from image to image and produces the strangest metamorphoses ...

The sky is the limit ...

The Death of the Book (and What Comes Next What does an older gentleman do when he’s always understood himself as a classical reader and book lover, but suddenly finds himself in a world occupied with Substack texts, image and video production...

www.linkedin.com/pulse/death-...

What happens when you take a look in the mirror
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The question is: What is an idea? Could it be that it is not something genuinely visual, but first and foremost a thought?

Most people see AI as competition. Alexander Manu sees it as a creative partner.

The shift? Stop trying to beat the machine. Start learning to dance with it.

What if our fear of being replaced is actually fear of evolving?
martinburckhardt.substack.com/p/talking-to...

Why the Masters of the Universe failed ... An interesting conversation (and doing the video for that was just fun):
martinburckhardt.substack.com/p/talking-to...

In the World of the Spectres Rethinking visual motives

Some thoughts on visual motives
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How to maintain balance in virtual space - that is the question

https://martinburckhardt.substack.com/p/talking-to-alexander-douglas

AI avatars are better at being "you" than you are. This philosophical discussion started with identity politics and ended somewhere I didn't expect.

martinburckhardt.substack.com/p/talking-to...

And here's another video showing how you can overcome the 5 seconds limitation of WAN models
simonmichelet1.substack.com/p/how-to-get...

thanks for the compliment ... ComfyUI will turn out to be a real treasure