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pith:22TGD36O

pith:2017:22TGD36OGYUUGABYJABSINBRM6

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'Indifference' methods for managing agent rewards

Stuart Armstrong, Xavier O'Rourke

arxiv:1712.06365 v4 · 2017-12-18 · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:14:16.009122Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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d6a661efce362943003848032434316786dd6276b62f2c5769c166f50a927726

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arxiv: 1712.06365 · arxiv_version: 1712.06365v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.06365 · pith_short_12: 22TGD36OGYUU · pith_short_16: 22TGD36OGYUUGABY · pith_short_8: 22TGD36O

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/22TGD36OGYUUGABYJABSINBRM6 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: d6a661efce362943003848032434316786dd6276b62f2c5769c166f50a927726

Canonical record JSON

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    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-18T12:28:45Z",
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  },
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