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 2 months ago
What’s with his obession with the name “grok” though? Sounds like the sound frog made
LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s fucking hilarious for an LLM.
Madison420@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not deeply but completely and absolutely.
Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed — to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science and it means as little to us as color does to a blind man.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
Rooty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Media literacy is at an all time low, especially among terminally online “activists”.
cv_octavio@piefed.ca 2 months ago
Doesn’t anyone remember groklaw? I feel like sometimes only I remember the early Internet anymore….
athairmor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I fully expect the SCO case to be resurrected at some point in this timeline. Then they’ll know.
LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world 2 months 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
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I always assumed Grok was chosen to hint as his technology background. For which “grok” is a popular term used for reading and understanding, with code in particular.
Madison420@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s a Heinlein - “stranger in a strange land” concept. It sort of spread out in nerdery from there where it meant you know and you’re in the know.
To know is to understand fully sort of. He’s doing the literal opposite which is a bit 1984 of him and is also likely another book he’s read and didn’t understand or at least had pretended to have read.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 months ago
trying to be an edgy almost teenager.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
grok = caveman?
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
All the tech fascists steal words. Palantir is from Lord of the Rings.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
And Apple is a fruit smh
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 months ago
those are also names of his SONS, whom he doesnt really care about, just to name them.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What an obscure reach to make.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s been part of deep nerd culture for decades, but not really pop culture.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I do not sense a wrongness in your post so I will not disappear you. :)
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Share water, brother!
SmokeyDope@piefed.social 2 months ago
Your thirst is mine, my water is yours! … Oh shit, wrong sci-fi world I think my bad