Pith Number

pith:FIUXSPFN

pith:2017:FIUXSPFNG5CMDZRT2TKNJQ75FX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Servant of Many Masters: Shifting priorities in Pareto-optimal sequential decision-making

Andrew Critch, Stuart Russell

arxiv:1711.00363 v1 · 2017-10-31 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FIUXSPFNG5CMDZRT2TKNJQ75FX}

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5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:31:32.291083Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2a29793cad3744c1e633d4d4d4c3fd2dcd00814a19b5c2bc3936c8954cbcd7a8

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.00363 · arxiv_version: 1711.00363v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.00363 · pith_short_12: FIUXSPFNG5CM · pith_short_16: FIUXSPFNG5CMDZRT · pith_short_8: FIUXSPFN

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/FIUXSPFNG5CMDZRT2TKNJQ75FX \
  | 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: 2a29793cad3744c1e633d4d4d4c3fd2dcd00814a19b5c2bc3936c8954cbcd7a8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b05525bd401a7fde731e0c2ef5b2eea882bd9539b2c85092aeb8d2272fdcd681",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-31T05:09:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7cacd2220e1da866c5497c3f3a994c0964a8f74ca4bd52c4d443e4ea9e021bb7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.00363",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}