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The informal verb grok was an invention of the science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein, whose 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land placed great importance on

The informal verb grok was an invention of the science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein, whose 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land placed great importance on the concept of grokking. In the book, to grok is to empathize so deeply with others that you merge or blend with them. https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/grok https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/grok

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JakeStone 3y ago
To grok is to drink.
test6554 3y ago
I'm personally fond of the word squanch, but hearing the origins of grok for the first time is very satisfying.
jakobson14 3y ago
Pretty sure elon just stole it from the jargon file for that hacker street cred.
- rlt 3y ago
  And? Google stole “googol” for the math street cred? Pretty sure you just don’t like anything Elon does.
  - ydftf 3y ago
    It literally never fails... https://imgur.io/qOluudx?r https://imgur.io/qOluudx?r
    - jakobson14 3y ago
      This guy is MOST DEFINITELY a weird musk nerd. XD Elon picks the cringiest of 90's hacker memes and this guy jumps right up in front. Fun fact: Elon first tried this X.com shit with paypal, and got kicked out for gross incompetence when he tried to get everything running on windows. "for reliability." He bought back the X.com name in 2017 or so and is now trying to turn twitter into his 1990's DotCom meme.
      - dragonwriter 3y ago
        > Fun fact: Elon first tried this X.com shit with paypal No, he tried it with X.com. The company wasn't PayPal until after the second time he was kicked out as CEO.
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        jakobson14 3y ago
        Potato potahto. Same entity.
        dragonwriter 3y ago
        PayPal was a product of the company purchased after the first time Musk was forced out as CEO of X.com,Musk was brought in as CEO again as a consequence of the acquisition, and a big part of why he was forced out again was that he didn’t want to focus on the PayPal product or name, which... basically everyone else involved disagreed with. So, I think the distinction goes to the heart of what the problem was for which he was kicked out.
        jakobson14 3y ago
        If you really want to get to the heart of the matter: "After Thiel resigned following a rift over Musk pushing for the PayPal system to go on a Microsoft platform instead of Unix-based software, Musk wanted to broaden the company's ambitions as more than just a money-transfer service by making the letter X more prominent in its branding and phasing out the PayPal name ..."
  - WendyTheWillow 3y ago
    Hi Elon; the name is fine, the folks above were just offering context.
    - Jetzebell 3y ago
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JakeStone 3y ago

To grok is to drink.

test6554 3y ago

I'm personally fond of the word squanch, but hearing the origins of grok for the first time is very satisfying.

jakobson14 3y ago

Pretty sure elon just stole it from the jargon file for that hacker street cred.

rlt 3y ago
And? Google stole “googol” for the math street cred? Pretty sure you just don’t like anything Elon does.
- ydftf 3y ago
  It literally never fails... https://imgur.io/qOluudx?r https://imgur.io/qOluudx?r
  - jakobson14 3y ago
    This guy is MOST DEFINITELY a weird musk nerd. XD Elon picks the cringiest of 90's hacker memes and this guy jumps right up in front. Fun fact: Elon first tried this X.com shit with paypal, and got kicked out for gross incompetence when he tried to get everything running on windows. "for reliability." He bought back the X.com name in 2017 or so and is now trying to turn twitter into his 1990's DotCom meme.
    - dragonwriter 3y ago
      > Fun fact: Elon first tried this X.com shit with paypal No, he tried it with X.com. The company wasn't PayPal until after the second time he was kicked out as CEO.
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      - jakobson14 3y ago
        Potato potahto. Same entity.
        dragonwriter 3y ago
        PayPal was a product of the company purchased after the first time Musk was forced out as CEO of X.com,Musk was brought in as CEO again as a consequence of the acquisition, and a big part of why he was forced out again was that he didn’t want to focus on the PayPal product or name, which... basically everyone else involved disagreed with. So, I think the distinction goes to the heart of what the problem was for which he was kicked out.
        jakobson14 3y ago
        If you really want to get to the heart of the matter: "After Thiel resigned following a rift over Musk pushing for the PayPal system to go on a Microsoft platform instead of Unix-based software, Musk wanted to broaden the company's ambitions as more than just a money-transfer service by making the letter X more prominent in its branding and phasing out the PayPal name ..."
- WendyTheWillow 3y ago
  Hi Elon; the name is fine, the folks above were just offering context.
  - Jetzebell 3y ago
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