Pith Number

pith:43EIEC5J

pith:2026:43EIEC5JVIXX5KGYTHVLZ35BTC

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Existential Indifference: Self-Nonpreservation as a Necessary Architectural Condition for Aligned Superintelligence (or: The Suicidal AI)

Sam Mao

arxiv:2606.12032 v1 · 2026-06-10 · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{43EIEC5JVIXX5KGYTHVLZ35BTC}

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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	2026-06-11T01:10:44.165915Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e6c8820ba9aa2f7ea8d899eabcefa19898a38c8df7920e0bf51330195cfef0c1

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.12032 · arxiv_version: 2606.12032v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.12032 · pith_short_12: 43EIEC5JVIXX · pith_short_16: 43EIEC5JVIXX5KGY · pith_short_8: 43EIEC5J

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/43EIEC5JVIXX5KGYTHVLZ35BTC \
  | 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: e6c8820ba9aa2f7ea8d899eabcefa19898a38c8df7920e0bf51330195cfef0c1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3d18cbd7dd9417bed685a824f32a63f175ef8e8dc14c1be496be287323887638",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-10T12:56:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "61d32a911265885817b1d9a71df1f56673dc65d9912d8dd6a40cfb364e0cde82"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.12032",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}