victor

@notnaughtknot

[he/him] 🇧🇷🏳️‍🌈| studying how children learn language and logical terms not the victor gomes at upenn

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victor@notnaughtknot· 1d

my adobe acrobat had a hot take

screenshot of text that reads "neuroscience" with a squiggle and right click that suggests replacing with "pseudoscience"

victor@notnaughtknot· 1d

put up some office decoration and was promptly roasted

framed picture titled “the wall of traitors” depicting an eye for sight, ear for hearing, hands for touch, tongue for taste, and nose for smell with the subtitle “do not fall for their treachery”. below this framed picture there is a sticky note that reads “okay descartes…”

victor@notnaughtknot· 2d

soyjaks pointing at a zipfian with mouths open

victor@notnaughtknot· 2d

a student said they kept thinking about the picture I had up during a journal club early in the summer this was the picture:

a comic of donald talking to mickey. donald says “Everything that we know and love is reducible to the absurd acts of chemicals, and there is therefore no intrinsic value in this material universe.” and mickey replies “Hypocrite that you are, for you trust the chemicals in your brain to tell you they are chemicals.
All knowledge is ultimately based on that which we cannot
prove. Will you fight? Or will you perish like a dog?”

victor@notnaughtknot· 9d

sums up the past few forevers

**Everybody Tells Me Everything**
<u>Ogden Nash</u>

I find it very difficult to enthuse
Over the current news.
Just when you think that at least the outlook is so black that it can grow no blacker, it worsens,
And that is why I do not like the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

victor@notnaughtknot· 10d

me after trying to teach undergrads about de morgan’s laws

ikea couch with bisexual colors and lots of hand prints with text that reads when you change or to and nobody believes you

victor@notnaughtknot· 11d

victor@notnaughtknot· 13d

we could easily get by with “H” and above

graph showing the frequency of letters in an english corpus, H is the 9th most frequent here

victor@notnaughtknot· 15d

Fodor if he was a catty sex columnist

screenshot of london review of books article by Jerry Fodor titled "Bottoms Again"

victor@notnaughtknot· 18d

For the next 3 months, the neoluddite group's gonna be meeting to discuss The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul! you can see our schedule & further readings here: victorgom.es/neoluddite

Cover of The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul displaying a magnetic tape in a deck. text reads: With an introduction by Robert K. Merton. A penetrating analysis of our technical civilization and the effect of an increasingly standardized culture on the future of man.

victor@notnaughtknot· Jun 6

please, Gomes, V.; Huh, Y.; Yun, H.; Trueswell, J.C. was my father. you can call me victor

text that reads: Dear Gomes, V.; Huh, Y.; Yun, H.; Trueswell, J.C.,
Warm greetings!

victor@notnaughtknot· May 13

men don’t need the same last name to be brothers

victor@notnaughtknot· Apr 30

what did I say

screenshot of article titled “OpenAI Codex system prompt includes explicit directive to never talk about goblins”

victor@notnaughtknot· Apr 22

join the neoluddite reading group @ iffy books on May 14th to discuss The Unaccountability Machine by @dsquareddigest.bsky.social!

cover of "the unaccountability machine: why big systems make terrible decisions and how the world lost its minds" which has the words in the title and subtitle subdivided into boxes in a flowchart

victor@notnaughtknot· Apr 19

see “cum” in the middle there? that’s written English shitposting

chart showing frequency of letters with c u and m occurring together near the middle

victor@notnaughtknot· Apr 19

I was told my scalp is very conductive

me in an EEG cap with my sweatshirt that says CONCEPTS

victor@notnaughtknot· Apr 13

hmm the website seems like it’s down or something but this was the email abstract

victor@notnaughtknot· Apr 9

me when my head is full of innate concepts:

picture of sign in front of parking garage that says “LOT FULL”

victor@notnaughtknot· Apr 9

my collaborators humor me much more than I deserve

slack screenshot of text that reads: Hahaha all good, I think I’m almost to the screed!

victor@notnaughtknot· Apr 9

ended up going on an atomist screed in a cross-situational word learning paper

screenshot from google docs comment from me that reads "may have gone off the deep end here I'm afraid"

victor@notnaughtknot· Apr 4

as someone *who likes the alphabet and benefits from using it* we have a problem.

plot of letters by frequency - a zipfian distribution where the most commonly used letter is much more commonly than each succesive

victor@notnaughtknot· Mar 27

This is a dax!

victor@notnaughtknot· Mar 14

to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Infinite Jest, the Neoluddite book club is discussing Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman on April 9th!

cover of amusing ourselves to death 20th anniversary edition. subtitle: public discourse in the age of show business with new introduction by andrew postman. Cover depicts two simple figures with televisions for heads on a red background with hazard tape as the borders

victor@notnaughtknot· Feb 16

super excited for the next neoluddite book club read, Life After Cars by @thewaroncars.bsky.social and @naparstek.bsky.social! join us to discuss at iffy books on Thursday, March 12th 🤖🔨❤️

cover of Life After Cars: Freeing ourselves from the tyranny of the automobile by Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon, hosts of the war on cars Podcast and Aaron Naparstek. It depicts a cartoon traffic light beginning to be covered in vines and flowers.

victor@notnaughtknot· Feb 15

The theory is that Greycat- unlike rocks, worms , nebulae, and the rest - has , and acts out of , beliefs and desires . The reason , for ex ample, that Greycat patrols his food bowl in the morning is that he wants food and believes - has come to believe on the basis of earlier feedings- that his food bowl is the place to find it. The reason that Greycat avoids aggressive dogs is that he is afraid of them . The reason that Greycat scratches at the door is that he wants out. And so forth . Whereas, by contrast, rocks and the like do not have beliefs and desires. Their 'behaviors' are different from Greycat's because they are, in this respect, differently caused.

victor@notnaughtknot· Feb 15

it occurs later in but is sort of looping back to a point in the preface where he talks about greycat being intelligent in a way rocks nebulae and etc aren’t

I suppose we like Psychofunctionalism (those of us who do) because it provides us with a reasonable account of the difference between systems to which belief/desire ascriptions are a ppropria te and systems to which they are not. "It's a question of internal organization," Psychofunctionalism says. "People and machines have the right sort of internal organization to satisfy belief/desire explanations; rocks and such, by contrast, don't." This does look better than either the Central State Identity theory (which has to say that rocks don't have beliefs and desires because they're made of rock) or Logical Behaviorism (which has to say that rocks don't have beliefs and desires because they don't move around enough).

victor@notnaughtknot· Feb 3

ever since I was a young man I was interested in the meaning of things

me in front of a store enthusiastically pointing up at its sign which reads “the meaning of things” in a thin serif font

victor@notnaughtknot· Feb 1

next neoluddite read is Mood Machine by @lizpelly.bsky.social! join us at iffy books on Thursday, Feb. 12th to discuss

cover of Mood Machine: the rise of spotify and the costs of the perfect playlist by Liz Pelly. Black background with rounded squares that evoke the minimalist and colorful graphic blobs of spotify alongside some images of people in different moods (working, sleeping, social, workout)

victor@notnaughtknot· Jan 1

new year greeting to all, including my gut microbiome

On this day tradition allots
to taking stock of our lives,
my greetings to all of you, Yeasts,
Bacteria, Viruses,
Aerobics and Anaerobics:
A Very Happy New Year
to all for whom my ectoderm
is as Middle-Earth to me.

victor@notnaughtknot· Dec 21

italo calvino gave a wild talk on whether he sees his role as author replaceable by machine, what that means for “the reader,” and the primacy of fable over myth