The shift from asking "do you mind if I record this?" to a notetaker already sitting in the participant list is a sharp way to show how the ritual faded. Your point that it was always possible misses what changed: the friction used to do the job of asking, and now nothing does. Treating it as an open question rather than a prediction fits, since the existing recording policy covers the old ritual but not the silent version.
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Proof Over Promises.
The shift from asking "do you mind if I record this?" to a notetaker already sitting in the participant list is a sharp way to show how the ritual faded. Your point that it was always possible misses what changed: the friction used to do the job of asking, and now nothing does. Treating it as an open question rather than a prediction fits, since the existing recording policy covers the old ritual but not the silent version.