Pith Number

pith:LVPSTLGM

pith:2026:LVPSTLGMDFFAPOIWARZBVTORC4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Unplugging a Seemingly Sentient Machine Is the Rational Choice -- A Metaphysical Perspective

Anna Ciaunica, Erik J Bekkers

arxiv:2601.21016 v2 · 2026-01-28 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LVPSTLGMDFFAPOIWARZBVTORC4}

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4 Citations open

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	2026-06-02T02:04:50.137707Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5d5f29accc194a07b91604721acdd1173322bf6c904048d5549ab6b5c676b25e

Aliases

arxiv: 2601.21016 · arxiv_version: 2601.21016v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2601.21016 · pith_short_12: LVPSTLGMDFFA · pith_short_16: LVPSTLGMDFFAPOIW · pith_short_8: LVPSTLGM

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/LVPSTLGMDFFAPOIWARZBVTORC4 \
  | 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: 5d5f29accc194a07b91604721acdd1173322bf6c904048d5549ab6b5c676b25e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f2a9751cf1de0631aeff47c5a01d09b87bafee15f0ba28173867d24792f1a92b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-01-28T20:17:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "27a054ddd159d4b341bf7b8bd4d070c9561317aba434a8165d34191336640620"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2601.21016",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}