Pith Number

pith:G46JJRGS

pith:2025:G46JJRGSKL6WT7OB2WIMXIMHXH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Preparing for the Intelligence Explosion

Fin Moorhouse, William MacAskill

arxiv:2506.14863 v1 · 2025-06-17 · cs.CY · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G46JJRGSKL6WT7OB2WIMXIMHXH}

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Record completeness

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:23:32.994231Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

373c94c4d252fd69fdc1d590cba187b9f8ccb1edbb69c900634993fcffcf73e3

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.14863 · arxiv_version: 2506.14863v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.14863 · pith_short_12: G46JJRGSKL6W · pith_short_16: G46JJRGSKL6WT7OB · pith_short_8: G46JJRGS

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/G46JJRGSKL6WT7OB2WIMXIMHXH \
  | 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: 373c94c4d252fd69fdc1d590cba187b9f8ccb1edbb69c900634993fcffcf73e3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "293fc83cfaf6d706bfe2854fed27d67ebc789287a5e196369afc93cc72580ef5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-17T17:37:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c02675e5cba1ad03f04ae2ce8d9eaaca1b7ba3bcaf0bb584b6d90545015c9f98"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.14863",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}