(blog post author here) Yes! The post actually talks about that a bit: how overfitting can result from treating "leaders that have the most support in the popu

(blog post author here) Yes! The post actually talks about that a bit: how overfitting can result from treating "leaders that have the most support in the population" as a proxy for "leaders that act in the best interests of the population"; and some ideas for improving that with noise regularization or capacity restrictions.