One reason I dislike it is personal. I like the word "grok" but I'll have to stop using it everywhere but here. People might assume I was a Elon xBOY (fanboy).
I generally don't have a good time when I talk to people that insert "grok" into ordinary sentences. Tends to be people that have a lot of Main Character Syndrome that started or got boosted by Heinlein fiction.
Grok is a neologism coined by American writer Robert A. Heinlein for his 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land. While the Oxford English Dictionary summarizes the meaning of grok as "to understand intuitively or by empathy, to establish rapport with" and "to empathize or communicate sympathetically; also, to experience enjoyment"
Sure, if the writer decides that the Great Man has the magical chops to be the Great Man, yes of course in the setting that is the Great Man. It's how the Thermian argument works.
I'm aware of what Grok means. I just remember it being explained to me as a thing they say in the Gor novels, by someone who is simply far too intelligent (and too good-looking, IMO) to have enjoyed the Gor novels.
![[Not the Onion] xAI's Grok system](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/9e4aef1e-f6a3-4f08-95ab-6262424c3c00.png){kind=link}
One reason I dislike it is personal. I like the word "grok" but I'll have to stop using it everywhere but here. People might assume I was a Elon xBOY (fanboy).
I generally don't have a good time when I talk to people that insert "grok" into ordinary sentences. Tends to be people that have a lot of Main Character Syndrome that started or got boosted by Heinlein fiction.
I thought grok was from the Gor novels, the pinnacle of late 60's-early 70's pulp trash
Different chud.
"thou art god, grok deez nuts lmfao"
^ literally the entire novel summarized
I never finished it; it was too insufferably arrogant and full of Great Man Theory fever dreams.
To be fair a space sex wizard might actually be able to pull off some great man shit
Sure, if the writer decides that the Great Man has the magical chops to be the Great Man, yes of course in the setting that is the Great Man. It's how the Thermian argument works.
I'm aware of what Grok means. I just remember it being explained to me as a thing they say in the Gor novels, by someone who is simply far too intelligent (and too good-looking, IMO) to have enjoyed the Gor novels.
Nah, it is from a polyamorous Martian religious teaching
this dang robot can't drink at all