Pith Number

pith:LXBRCE2F

pith:2018:LXBRCE2FEI2LNFSFDZ35VCGL4B

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The Virtuous Machine - Old Ethics for New Technology?

Klaus Diepold, Nicolas Berberich

arxiv:1806.10322 v1 · 2018-06-27 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LXBRCE2FEI2LNFSFDZ35VCGL4B}

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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	2026-05-18T00:12:12.818311Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5dc31113452234b696451e77da88cbe053c03c20ab7f82991e2cb14db76e4ede

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.10322 · arxiv_version: 1806.10322v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.10322 · pith_short_12: LXBRCE2FEI2L · pith_short_16: LXBRCE2FEI2LNFSF · pith_short_8: LXBRCE2F

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/LXBRCE2FEI2LNFSFDZ35VCGL4B \
  | 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: 5dc31113452234b696451e77da88cbe053c03c20ab7f82991e2cb14db76e4ede

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d08be58bbd33d31b97b5665250bf0a3daabe916a06179cbdf79d9bda173698c4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-27T07:40:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "69433550906606ee78063b8bd695ec17968ae1884b8104e3fdf08c40c01217de"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.10322",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}