Re:Show HN: Mest – Place to talk with those you disagree with
by m_fayer on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @07:12PM
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I agree. And as someone who works with telemedicine, I can say that even video pales in comparison to in person.
Our body language reading machinery is weak and ignorable when a person is reduced to a small 2 dimensional image, let alone text. And it's the signals that this machinery produces that trigger empathy. Without it, and especially when talking to strangers, it's easy to slip into a mild kind of psychopathy.
Our body language reading machinery is weak and ignorable when a person is reduced to a small 2 dimensional image, let alone text. And it's the signals that this machinery produces that trigger empathy. Without it, and especially when talking to strangers, it's easy to slip into a mild kind of psychopathy.