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c-linkagetoday at 4:09 AM3 repliesview on HN

He probably had plans to use it for some sort of Ender's Game crap but then realized that grok wasn't smart enough to do it.


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XargonEndertoday at 5:08 AM

The word Grok comes from the novel Stranger in a Strange Land where the main character is Valentine.

mcintyre1994today at 7:05 AM

More likely is that they took a bunch of good usernames to sell - if you pay for their most expensive subscription one of the features is that you can rent a better username now.

ETH_starttoday at 6:32 AM

It's extremely unlikely Musk was personally involved in any way in the decision on the username.

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