kaal:claim:6269518-015

A PageRank-derived value distribution is only as honest as its inputs, and those inputs are generated by agents with a direct incentive to distort them, so relying entirely on the calculation to distribute value correctly fails.

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The framework relies entirely on the PageRank calculation to "correctly" distribute value, but the PageRank calculation is only as honest as its inputs. And the inputs are generated by agents with a direct incentive to distort them.

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Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026), III. The Missing Game-Theoretic Proof, p. 8
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Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518

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failuresupport: arguedfailure: honest inputs assumptionfamily: reputation-system-gamingcitation-and-knowledgeai-and-agentsrisk-and-incentives

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