What you are saying is that written communication is also a lot less noisy.

Of course, you could learn to write better and convey the same information over text.

It’s only noisy if you don’t know what you’re looking at. Watch a professional poker game sometime and you’ll see the lengths people go to avoid non-verbally communicating the strength of their hand. Table talk is completely casual up until someone is involved in a monster hand and suddenly they go catatonic.

Of course there’s still noise. Just like in text. Professional writers struggle just as hard to get their word choice and phrasing -just so-.

For someone with autism (raises hand) body language might not be well conveyed anyway, or gets misinterpreted.

I'm looking forward to AR/VR taking over more cake of the need for physical needs.

Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN. The site guidelines particularly ask you not to be snarky here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Well you better whether you like it or not. Because when the weather goes apeshit and viruses are on about, you get no one to hand hold you.

His point is that all in-person communication includes elements that cannot be translated over text. This includes things like facial expressions, non-verbal body language. You responded with "learn how to read the manual" which isn't addressing the point that the comment is making.

Of course it is. At the end of it all lie the specs. So why dance around it?