Elias Ruokanen
@ru0k.bsky.social
Draw/paint when I can. Helsinki/Finland. ruok.art
@aalto.fi New Media MA student. CogSci before that.
@aalto.fi New Media MA student. CogSci before that.
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Elias Ruokanen
@ru0k.bsky.social
· Jun 17
Computers Schmomputers
Why I find computationalism a hard pill to swallow. AI hype has reached astronomical proportions. It is not enough to state that artificial intelligence is a technology that is reshaping society. It i...
ruok.art
Read my take on why conscious AI is shoddy philosophy:
"This worldview is presented as essentially complete, but it has a person-sized hole in it: Computers don't objectively exist."
ruok.art/Computers-Sc...
"This worldview is presented as essentially complete, but it has a person-sized hole in it: Computers don't objectively exist."
ruok.art/Computers-Sc...
December 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
July 31, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Read my take on why conscious AI is shoddy philosophy:
"This worldview is presented as essentially complete, but it has a person-sized hole in it: Computers don't objectively exist."
ruok.art/Computers-Sc...
"This worldview is presented as essentially complete, but it has a person-sized hole in it: Computers don't objectively exist."
ruok.art/Computers-Sc...
Computers Schmomputers
Why I find computationalism a hard pill to swallow. AI hype has reached astronomical proportions. It is not enough to state that artificial intelligence is a technology that is reshaping society. It i...
ruok.art
June 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Read my take on why conscious AI is shoddy philosophy:
"This worldview is presented as essentially complete, but it has a person-sized hole in it: Computers don't objectively exist."
ruok.art/Computers-Sc...
"This worldview is presented as essentially complete, but it has a person-sized hole in it: Computers don't objectively exist."
ruok.art/Computers-Sc...
May 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
If you see this, post a witch!
May 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
If you see this, post a witch!
March 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Another Way
Oil on gessobord
"For years I searched, for I knew my visions to be true"
Might still fix a few small things, but getting burned out on this one. Went for a Magic: The Gathering vibe, those cards have been an inspiration since kindergarten.
#oilpainting #fantasyart #art #landscape
Oil on gessobord
"For years I searched, for I knew my visions to be true"
Might still fix a few small things, but getting burned out on this one. Went for a Magic: The Gathering vibe, those cards have been an inspiration since kindergarten.
#oilpainting #fantasyart #art #landscape
March 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Another Way
Oil on gessobord
"For years I searched, for I knew my visions to be true"
Might still fix a few small things, but getting burned out on this one. Went for a Magic: The Gathering vibe, those cards have been an inspiration since kindergarten.
#oilpainting #fantasyart #art #landscape
Oil on gessobord
"For years I searched, for I knew my visions to be true"
Might still fix a few small things, but getting burned out on this one. Went for a Magic: The Gathering vibe, those cards have been an inspiration since kindergarten.
#oilpainting #fantasyart #art #landscape
Evening study. Started off doing a monochrome version of a Zhaoming Wu painting, but it went off in its own direction. Doing these "kind of" studies is a lot less stressful, you still learn a lot and mistakes can be used to inject your own expression. Obviously a lot faster, too. #art #oilpainting
February 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Evening study. Started off doing a monochrome version of a Zhaoming Wu painting, but it went off in its own direction. Doing these "kind of" studies is a lot less stressful, you still learn a lot and mistakes can be used to inject your own expression. Obviously a lot faster, too. #art #oilpainting
November 26, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Rembrandt master study (2023)
November 21, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Rembrandt master study (2023)