Philosophy in the boardroom: every technical trade-off ships someone's ethics
rkulidzan · x · 2026-10-23
Rebekah Kulidzan, with a decade spanning policy, AI and blockchain, publishes her first essay arguing that every technical decision — speed vs accuracy, cost vs privacy, what a schema stores and ignores — carries implicit philosophy and ethics. She maps Kant's structures of experience onto data modeling: before any query runs, you've decided what exists and how things may relate. She also asks what LLM output is if not human language, citing Beatrice Fazi's notion of machine synthesis.
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