Buxton Index: the primary timescale over which a person/org plans & makes decisions (3mo? 10yr?).
Useful bc it predicts conflict—descriptively, not normatively. Low-BI often sees high-BI as astronaut-ish; high often sees low as shallow.
Via Dijkstra: cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/tran
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Per Dijkstra: “[Close] co-operation between entities with very different Buxton Indices invariably fails and leads to moral complaints about the partner. … The Buxton Index is important to bear in mind when considering academic/industrial co-operation.”
Indeed!
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I feel like “Buxton analysis” might be a core piece of a hypothetical way to map incentives in an institution (or between them)
This paper was great for a number of other reasons too! Thanks for sharing
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