Pith Number

pith:FHUHEQON

pith:2017:FHUHEQONHTBM46BXC6NNZLNDNN

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Occam's razor is insufficient to infer the preferences of irrational agents

S\"oren Mindermann, Stuart Armstrong

arxiv:1712.05812 v6 · 2017-12-15 · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:56:34.274013Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

29e87241cd3cc2ce7837179adcada36b532b97bca05ef80e9d5580d98cd0fd5c

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.05812 · arxiv_version: 1712.05812v6 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.05812 · pith_short_12: FHUHEQONHTBM · pith_short_16: FHUHEQONHTBM46BX · pith_short_8: FHUHEQON

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FHUHEQONHTBM46BXC6NNZLNDNN \
  | 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: 29e87241cd3cc2ce7837179adcada36b532b97bca05ef80e9d5580d98cd0fd5c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "97ccab2f786c2121cb7278af40fa01aeb32449252c0b42e83ef469cab0f054eb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-15T19:05:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fc43c9df36fd8b1109fdef8d33c948fde19c5cc27e1a137165afb80a0db3924b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.05812",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 6
  }
}