Pith Number

pith:2NXYWMAZ

pith:2024:2NXYWMAZ7LBPUJ3XWIOKOKEK2F

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On the Limitations of Compute Thresholds as a Governance Strategy

Sara Hooker

arxiv:2407.05694 v2 · 2024-07-08 · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.ET · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2NXYWMAZ7LBPUJ3XWIOKOKEK2F}

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4 Citations open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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2 papers in Pith

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Hardware-Level Governance of AI Compute: A Feasibility Taxonomy for Regulatory Compliance and Treaty Verification

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T08:49:53.950935Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d36f8b3019fac2fa2777b21ca7288ad178e54a0fe8fc708648378bb9c5a44c0b

Aliases

arxiv: 2407.05694 · arxiv_version: 2407.05694v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2407.05694 · pith_short_12: 2NXYWMAZ7LBP · pith_short_16: 2NXYWMAZ7LBPUJ3X · pith_short_8: 2NXYWMAZ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2NXYWMAZ7LBPUJ3XWIOKOKEK2F \
  | 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: d36f8b3019fac2fa2777b21ca7288ad178e54a0fe8fc708648378bb9c5a44c0b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2f71367776a0ec083e5f1b7edb477ea6c98a724eeeea6739c4b327ea7aab318d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.ET",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2024-07-08T07:53:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bf1d406b058e4d8c98e2dca9e1df6f9ac23bff11a1b64dfc424bb5435f0b1466"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2407.05694",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}