#science
https://distill.pub/2017/research-debt/

> Research debt is the accumulation of missing interpretive labor. It’s extremely natural for young ideas to go through a stage of debt, like early prototypes in engineering.

That is because our value system doesn’t respect interpretors…

Distill

Research Debt

Science is a human activity. When we fail to distill and explain research, we accumulate a kind of debt...