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Same thing. To grok is to fully incorporate the new into your intuitive view of the world - changing your view of both in the process. An AI is training their model with the new data, incorporating it into their existing world view in such a way that may even subtly change every variable they know. A human is doing the same. We integrate it deeper the more we can connect it to existing metaphor and understanding - and it becomes one less thing we need to "remember" precisely because we can then recreate it from "base principles" because we fully understand it. We've grokked it.


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