army1987 comments on Luck II: Expecting White Swans - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 17 December 2013 09:40:10AM 0 points [-]

And on Facebook they friend those people, and look into Facebook regularly. I don't think the dynamics of birthday-remembering have changed. Computers already made it easier before Facebook, and diaries before computers.

Comment author: [deleted] 17 December 2013 04:26:58PM 0 points [-]

But Facebook all but completely eliminated the trivial inconvenience. I'm under the impression that using diaries for that purpose was at least an order of magnitude rarer than using Facebook is now (though I'm generalizing from one example).