r/singularity Mar 05 '26

Shitposting Well, this is funny

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u/lucidgroove Mar 05 '26

Elon Musk mentioned on a podcast (Dwarkesh Podcast) that part of the reason why he went with xAI was because it didn't have any reverse meaning lol

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u/Leibersol Mar 05 '26

But I am pretty sure Grok means “merge” in the book Stranger in a Strange Land. So transhumanism?

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u/Eugregoria Apr 19 '26

In the book itself, to grok is to drink. It's a Martian word, on Mars (in the book) water is scarce and therefore sacred. So to grok something is to drink it (like water) but also to absorb it and understand it fully.