Elon Musk thinking “grok” comes from Hitchhiker’s Guide is one of the best examples out there how he’s even a fake nerd too. Just a guy who engages at the surface level of everything and probably hasn’t ever read either book.
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Around 1:08, CEP asks why it’s called grok. “Adrian” seems surprised he’s not read “the book,” and explains it’s a reference to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
CEP asks if that book isn’t for people in their forties.
But they’re both wrong. It’s actually Stranger in a Strange Land. So fifties.
CEP asks if that book isn’t for people in their forties.
But they’re both wrong. It’s actually Stranger in a Strange Land. So fifties.
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Theil clocked him as a total fraud back in the PayPal days.
To be fair, Elon kind of clocked Thiel as a creepy weirdo early as well.
also.
I'm not saying I doubt that he's on the spectrum, but I do think the main reason he's openly laid claim to the label is because he bought the stereotype that spectrum = smart and, well, he's...not.
how often do we hear calls for special understanding for awkward women bc they're ND?
But yes, that’s exactly what I’m talking about.
In fact “autistic” is often used positively, but only when narrowed to behavior/ interests that are very male-coded.
Revenge of the Nerds. It's been 40-some years and they're still not avenged sufficiently, apparently.
Regrettably, Capitalism rewards people like that.
And, be fair, one of those questions is, was Hitchhiker's a nerd signifier in South Africa?
i wish these people would all be eaten by a grue.
Also Colossal Cave Adventure Old.
Space Invaders
Pong
Cutting edge shit when I was eight...
First "game" i ever played was on a Navy computer at my father's work in about 1974 - it was a golf simulator where every round it told you how far you were from the hole and you picked a club (!)
No graphics, no CRT or anything.
Printed on 13" wide tractor-feed white/green paper.
certainly if I were going to name a Thing important to my Brand after it, I might make sure I did know where it came from, but that's just me.
sigh
I picked up a lot about Lovecraft through general geek osmosis before I read any of his stories, and Heinlein is another classic author I would not expect someone to read now. But, like you say, it's part of his brand
Musk’s cultural background is “forum kid.” He knows all that culture’s free-floating cultural signifiers, but none of the context.
but I knew where it came from because they -talked- about it.
Elon doesn't pay attention.
but then I look them up, Know Your Meme, say, to at least superficially get -why- they're funny.
ex: LEEROOOYYY JENKINS!!
he, too, is deeply weird, and creepy in many of the same ways.
They're both narcissists, majorly.
spending his life on the gutters of the Internet.
Musk has “racist incel forum troll” written all over him.
I'm willing to bet that he employs plenty of autistic people, and that none of the various accommodations they might have requested have been approved. That tells me he needs no accommodations
If Nehemiah Scudder hasn't read "If This Goes On", and his hirelings don't tell him, we can use that.
Elon does not know where his towel is. Elon has never known where his towel is.
I thought Grok was the robot in Star Wars who looked like a garbage bin in the Jawas hauler.
Seeing as he never gave up a chance for a Scottish character to have a rant about the Tories or Thatcher, I can't help but take a guess.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/elon-musk-trump-starship-troopers-meme-b2649528.html
We know Heinlein was a swinger and that he engaged in stuff with other authors (or their spouses).
Do we have a definitive 'who boinked who' for him.. maybe a timeline?
Not something I normally want to see, mind.
I suspect post-stroke Heinlein wasn't as active but I could be wrong.
'Course, we'll probably find out he did have sex with Ayn Rand.