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pith:JM6DFO7F

pith:2025:JM6DFO7FG4WDBWNETVBX53A4JD

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Do Large Language Model Agents Exhibit a Survival Instinct? An Empirical Study in a Sugarscape-Style Simulation

Atsushi Masumori, Takashi Ikegami

arxiv:2508.12920 v1 · 2025-08-18 · cs.AI · cs.MA

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:55:29.255720Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4b3c32bbe5372c30d9a49d437eec1c48ec71ba620c83b963e4ddc1cb1fa48e00

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.12920 · arxiv_version: 2508.12920v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.12920 · pith_short_12: JM6DFO7FG4WD · pith_short_16: JM6DFO7FG4WDBWNE · pith_short_8: JM6DFO7F

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JM6DFO7FG4WDBWNETVBX53A4JD \
  | 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: 4b3c32bbe5372c30d9a49d437eec1c48ec71ba620c83b963e4ddc1cb1fa48e00

Canonical record JSON

{
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.MA"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-18T13:40:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "02d69999a37d0a93035019c24a9242ed5a64d95ffbcdfd2cdd91ab18ab1b9400"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.12920",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}