Pith Number

pith:DF6FBB35

pith:2026:DF6FBB35XUDJ7OMN3NMMNVCATT

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Is Capability a Liability? More Capable Language Models Make Worse Forecasts When It Matters Most

Ezra Karger, Jaeho Lee, Nick Merrill

arxiv:2605.22672 v1 · 2026-05-21 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DF6FBB35XUDJ7OMN3NMMNVCATT}

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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	2026-05-22T02:04:49.504182Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

197c50877dbd069fb98ddb58c6d4409cc61ca2e7f067b9059c82ef6a7aeef6f8

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.22672 · arxiv_version: 2605.22672v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.22672 · pith_short_12: DF6FBB35XUDJ · pith_short_16: DF6FBB35XUDJ7OMN · pith_short_8: DF6FBB35

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/DF6FBB35XUDJ7OMN3NMMNVCATT \
  | 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: 197c50877dbd069fb98ddb58c6d4409cc61ca2e7f067b9059c82ef6a7aeef6f8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d33157f20cb511ecc60e498e39218a476d4d5cb682bb6b698380151df1476858",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-21T16:14:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dfc5040a190010f38efc7fad6c9591dd9ce8cca4a75778207d25d1d9b937f26c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.22672",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}