Announcing Grok

xAI ^ | 11/4/2023 | xAI

[Theophilus]

In Von Braun’s 1953 book “Mars Project,” he referenced a person titled: the “Elon” that would bring humans to Mars.

[leaning conservative]

I need to read it. My parents had a copy.

[leaning conservative]

A gorgeous man & a kitten will do it every time; )

[Nifster]

Why would I want a machine try and write my thoughts?

[Nifster]

A most excellent read

[NautiNurse]

Happy Monday! Enjoy your week. 😁

[FMBass]

Valentine Michael Smith, as I recall.

[leaning conservative]

You too! 😊

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I guess I ended up conflating two different things Musk is quoted as having said . . .

Turns out I was just passing along someone else’s mistake . . . oh well.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Why would I want a machine try and write my thoughts?

Back in the day, my kids (none conservative) asked why I liked to read Thomas Sowell so much.

I replied, “Because he agrees with me - after I have read what he has written, of course!

[dynoman]

Can it think if a human unplugs the computer?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Heinlein wrote “Starship Troopers”, and the left freaked out and called him a fascist, because of it.

Then he wrote “Stranger in a Strange Land”, and the right freaked out and called him a communist, because of it.

[Bon of Babble]

As a huge fan of classic sci-fi, I too caught this immediately, as anyone familiar with the genre would.

That said, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is one of my very favorite books. I used to read aloud from that book to my kids when they were young.

Opening lines:

"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."

Also this from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

😊

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

Freeper propensity… nice framing. Yes, I completely understood that this could just be a marketing strategy. Sorry to disappoint you.

[Glennb51]

Awesome book. I read many years ago.