• protist
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    1 year ago

    “Grok” is a word invented by Robert Heinlein in Stranger in a Strange Land. It’s a verb meaning roughly “to understand deeply,” but there’s supposedly no effective English translation. I hate that this dude might ruin the word

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      And that, along with the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Bladerunner, marks yet another piece of science fiction that Musk refers to and yet doesn’t understand.