Comment on Don't like the 'left liberal bias' of cited and sourced Wikipedia articles? Not a problem, our lord and savior Elon is introducing Grokipedia.

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• clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Elgenzay@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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”

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    • Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      All the tech fascists steal words. Palantir is from Lord of the Rings.

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      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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…

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      • kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And Apple is a fruit smh

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      those are also names of his SONS, whom he doesnt really care about, just to name them.

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  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What an obscure reach to make.

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    • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s been part of deep nerd culture for decades, but not really pop culture.

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      • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Image

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I do not sense a wrongness in your post so I will not disappear you. :)

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    • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Share water, brother!

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      • SmokeyDope@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Your thirst is mine, my water is yours! … Oh shit, wrong sci-fi world I think my bad

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• LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I believe it is from the book stranger in a strange land. Its meaning is like to deeeeply understand, I think.

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s fucking hilarious for an LLM.

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  • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Media literacy is at an all time low, especially among terminally online “activists”.

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• cv_octavio@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Doesn’t anyone remember groklaw? I feel like sometimes only I remember the early Internet anymore….

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  • athairmor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I fully expect the SCO case to be resurrected at some point in this timeline. Then they’ll know.

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• LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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• bitwolf@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  trying to be an edgy almost teenager.

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• pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  grok = caveman?

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