Pith Number

pith:63YQW4TT

pith:2019:63YQW4TTKM5M5CPF5GVXYESOPA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Embedded Agency

Abram Demski, Scott Garrabrant

arxiv:1902.09469 v3 · 2019-02-25 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{63YQW4TTKM5M5CPF5GVXYESOPA}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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.

Cited by

4 papers in Pith

The Tao of Agency: Autotelic AI, Embedded Agency and Dissolution of the Self

Safety from Honesty in a Disinterested AI Predictor

Categorizing Wireheading in Partially Embedded Agents

Towards Empathic Deep Q-Learning

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T01:40:55.283302Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f6f10b7273533ace89e5e9ab7c124e78335dcdce8680f55e02340dfc9ea5b3fc

Aliases

arxiv: 1902.09469 · arxiv_version: 1902.09469v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1902.09469 · pith_short_12: 63YQW4TTKM5M · pith_short_16: 63YQW4TTKM5M5CPF · pith_short_8: 63YQW4TT

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/63YQW4TTKM5M5CPF5GVXYESOPA \
  | 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: f6f10b7273533ace89e5e9ab7c124e78335dcdce8680f55e02340dfc9ea5b3fc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b96f7271891567ffab1c754abf57a82474ca97a357bfaed93302c7a3ce28bd76",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2019-02-25T17:38:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5c91287f9a82b188b391ec78ccf03042b7a045cdca6c35c73e5dc67d4ad8c84c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1902.09469",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}