Pith Number

pith:3JQKNDCL

pith:2025:3JQKNDCLZWARYESLW7YFBIGPMG

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Causes in neuron diagrams, and testing causal reasoning in Large Language Models. A glimpse of the future of philosophy?

Louis Vervoort, Vitaly Nikolaev

arxiv:2506.14239 v1 · 2025-06-17 · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3JQKNDCLZWARYESLW7YFBIGPMG}

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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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First computed	2026-07-05T11:22:51.762678Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

da60a68c4bcd811c124bb7f050a0cf618e55334f9709035fd5a992470b480367

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.14239 · arxiv_version: 2506.14239v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.14239 · pith_short_12: 3JQKNDCLZWAR · pith_short_16: 3JQKNDCLZWARYESL · pith_short_8: 3JQKNDCL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3JQKNDCLZWARYESLW7YFBIGPMG \
  | 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: da60a68c4bcd811c124bb7f050a0cf618e55334f9709035fd5a992470b480367

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f72670c373d05d605e4e3d44a2020d4872a1f087b87d841955bd3f3607a3a46b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-17T06:55:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9133ff0e1198d62e398337e64663eb8e3e131028abe969b054e6b127f3569b89"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.14239",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}