FRI went further and quantitatively estimated how important each crux was—a great starting point towards an adversarially-collaborated synthesis.
And you can too! We evaluated cruxes on two axes: “value of information” (VOI) and “value of discrimination” (VOD). Essentially: VOI is how much someone expects to gain by finding out the answer to a given crux question (with respect to an ultimate question), and VOD is how much two people expect to converge on the ultimate question when they find out the answer to the crux question.
There’s a google sheets calculator, as well as an R library, which will be released on CRAN at some point.
And you can too! We evaluated cruxes on two axes: “value of information” (VOI) and “value of discrimination” (VOD). Essentially: VOI is how much someone expects to gain by finding out the answer to a given crux question (with respect to an ultimate question), and VOD is how much two people expect to converge on the ultimate question when they find out the answer to the crux question.
There’s a google sheets calculator, as well as an R library, which will be released on CRAN at some point.