There are a number of precedents for this using game theory and simpler models: Salience Models: https://pmstudycircle.com/2015/09/salience-model-to-analyze-pr

There are a number of precedents for this using game theory and simpler models: Salience Models: https://pmstudycircle.com/2015/09/salience-model-to-analyze-project-stakeholders/ https://pmstudycircle.com/2015/09/salience-model-to-analyze-... Predictioneers Game Model: http://harvardpolitics.com/books-arts/the-mathematical-prophet/ http://harvardpolitics.com/books-arts/the-mathematical-proph... Attacker Defender Games: https://imowensims.wordpress.com/2015/12/29/attacker-defender-games-an-introduction/ https://imowensims.wordpress.com/2015/12/29/attacker-defende... When you add Nassim Taleb's "intolerant minority," rule (https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15 https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...) I would be willing to bet you could reconstruct much of that this research as described is proposing. I like graphs for a lot of things, and I think they are going to supercharge our ability to learn things. However, while expressing this research as a graph sounds interesting, if you take the view that pretty much everything that can be expressed as objects and morphisms can therefore be expressed as a graph, and there is a bunch of game theory that already describes this, it's possible the graphyness of any proposition is illustrative, and not evidence. I'm looking forward to the paper and am glad the author has been able to articulate this phenomenon in a popular way, but the press release has triggered a cynical intuition.