Why “cherry” is being discussed
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Late to the game, but I have to call out your shameless cherry picking. That elipsis in your wikipedia quote skips: "which triggered a stock market crash and bank runs in severa…
by ajross · Oct 31, 2026
I'm sure you can cherry pick overseas examples, but if you look at the progress of the US in the 1900's there's a clear pattern: When intellectuals were in charge, or at least g…
by hedora · Oct 31, 2026
Can you give any evidence for this? (I mean statistically significant evidence worthly of your global, sweeping claims and not a tiny sample of cherry picked anecdotes) Or is al…
by malux85 · Oct 31, 2026
In other contexts people would ask me not to cherry pick extreme statements like “OpenAI and Anthropic will go away”. So I don’t have to cherry pick. I just have to pick what yo…
by simianwords · Oct 31, 2026
It's a reaction to the constant drum beat of doom marketing: - "our product is too dangerous to release but we can't be bothered to prove its capabilities working in public hack…
by red_green_yell · Oct 31, 2026
But, would you have done any one of those things had there been a scheduled safety class before going, and had all of those things been clearly presented and then tested for? I…
by naishoya · Oct 31, 2026
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Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "cherry" over time.
A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus Prunus, and is a fleshy drupe. Read more on Wikipedia