Pith Number

pith:2QBBEUYY

pith:2024:2QBBEUYY45GHH37RMPEHPKKUZT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Cooperative Evolutionary Pressure and Diminishing Returns Might Explain the Fermi Paradox: On What Super-AIs Are Like

Daniel Vallstrom

arxiv:2404.03685 v14 · 2024-04-01 · physics.soc-ph · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2QBBEUYY45GHH37RMPEHPKKUZT}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-02T03:05:03.155719Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d402125318e74c73eff163c877a954cccf94467e9d8e1d4bd766769c9bae2b9d

Aliases

arxiv: 2404.03685 · arxiv_version: 2404.03685v14 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2404.03685 · pith_short_12: 2QBBEUYY45GH · pith_short_16: 2QBBEUYY45GHH37R · pith_short_8: 2QBBEUYY

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2QBBEUYY45GHH37RMPEHPKKUZT \
  | 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: d402125318e74c73eff163c877a954cccf94467e9d8e1d4bd766769c9bae2b9d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c3d3f914946d74d5ad95f93bcdd823b0f33b2db87fdd67fd0ef519df3abd2945",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2024-04-01T13:12:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "17ef7d723c022fcf26d38edc797bfbd05f6b0eae18e618cdd2fd9d9547b4e9c7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2404.03685",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 14
  }
}