I believe it is from the book stranger in a strange land. Its meaning is like to deeeeply understand, I think.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
What’s with his obession with the name “grok” though? Sounds like the sound frog made
LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 hours ago
Lemminary@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
That’s fucking hilarious for an LLM.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You got the original explanation, but grok was taken up by computer nerds way back in the day. It’s not merely understanding a thing, in the book or the slang. To grok means to completely wrap your head around the subject, not merely surface level understanding.
cv_octavio@piefed.ca 22 hours ago
Doesn’t anyone remember groklaw? I feel like sometimes only I remember the early Internet anymore….
athairmor@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I fully expect the SCO case to be resurrected at some point in this timeline. Then they’ll know.
LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Funny you say that. In Serbia, they say the noise a pig makes is “grok”. My wife burst out laughing when she found out the name of Elon’s AI.
Imagine some Saudi prince launches an AI called Oink, and then sets up Oinkepedia
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
It’s from a book I love, Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land. The word is the Martian term for fully understanding something.
Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
That’s really funny. He steals the name Tesla and Grok and when he tries to come up with his own names, we get “X” and “X Æ A-Xii”
Soggy@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
All the tech fascists steal words. Palantir is from Lord of the Rings.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Which infuriates me as a LotR fan.
and also makes me side eye Chris Tolkien hard, cause he is normally very aggressive in protecting the intellectual property…
kandoh@reddthat.com 3 hours ago
And Apple is a fruit smh
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
What an obscure reach to make.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
It’s been part of deep nerd culture for decades, but not really pop culture.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
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shalafi@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I do not sense a wrongness in your post so I will not disappear you. :)
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
Share water, brother!
SmokeyDope@piefed.social 23 hours ago
Your thirst is mine, my water is yours! … Oh shit, wrong sci-fi world I think my bad