Pith Number

pith:HIYPZ4TV

pith:2026:HIYPZ4TVHWWAPYVJNKZQXFJWHF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Effortless Trap: Productive Struggle, AI, and the Illusion of Learning

Mario Brcic, Stjepan Frljic

arxiv:2606.26181 v1 · 2026-06-24 · cs.CY

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HIYPZ4TVHWWAPYVJNKZQXFJWHF}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-06-26T00:15:28.692013Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3a30fcf2753dac07e2a96ab30b9536394353baedf621c970dbcdd6179bf9cf5b

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.26181 · arxiv_version: 2606.26181v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.26181 · pith_short_12: HIYPZ4TVHWWA · pith_short_16: HIYPZ4TVHWWAPYVJ · pith_short_8: HIYPZ4TV

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/HIYPZ4TVHWWAPYVJNKZQXFJWHF \
  | 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: 3a30fcf2753dac07e2a96ab30b9536394353baedf621c970dbcdd6179bf9cf5b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c979dd381ba9c283225de52bf75f4433e02e38793a59775c76ab46c100b4b821",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-24T12:42:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9742043abe59c6548000b24493ce51b13a2d8e60ea2a7a095fe122c2b0b1100d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.26181",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}