Pith Number

pith:6NS7PFBV

pith:2025:6NS7PFBVSWIAYGG3QJVT5APIT3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Bayesian Epistemology with Weighted Authority: A Formal Architecture for Truth-Promoting Autonomous Scientific Reasoning

Craig S. Wright

arxiv:2506.16015 v1 · 2025-06-19 · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.DB · cs.LO · math.LO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6NS7PFBVSWIAYGG3QJVT5APIT3}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:24:28.186220Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f365f7943595900c18db826b3e81e89ed3b3ac0a19c3d4f2f9b10eec5a64ffcf

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.16015 · arxiv_version: 2506.16015v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.16015 · pith_short_12: 6NS7PFBVSWIA · pith_short_16: 6NS7PFBVSWIAYGG3 · pith_short_8: 6NS7PFBV

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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/6NS7PFBVSWIAYGG3QJVT5APIT3 \
  | 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: f365f7943595900c18db826b3e81e89ed3b3ac0a19c3d4f2f9b10eec5a64ffcf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dc595c34c73342d14f3bc9811e65ede21e520d73082cf2a57d9e76e58b0a642f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.DB",
      "cs.LO",
      "math.LO"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-19T04:22:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3f7c3e24076eb069beefad13cbbcc37822ceb4bb0bd8180e2476735fd52cee57"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.16015",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}