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pith:NHZVRYE4

pith:2024:NHZVRYE43KKNQIRPFTTQFB4TGN

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The Shutdown Problem: An AI Engineering Puzzle for Decision Theorists

Elliott Thornley

arxiv:2403.04471 v2 · 2024-03-07 · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-07-05T08:05:56.776976Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

69f358e09cda94d8222f2ce70287933358490bf9e8d8cb9755bfbaa2f3e75859

Aliases

arxiv: 2403.04471 · arxiv_version: 2403.04471v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2403.04471 · pith_short_12: NHZVRYE43KKN · pith_short_16: NHZVRYE43KKNQIRP · pith_short_8: NHZVRYE4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NHZVRYE43KKNQIRPFTTQFB4TGN \
  | 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: 69f358e09cda94d8222f2ce70287933358490bf9e8d8cb9755bfbaa2f3e75859

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "31f20b1603f91398f73a8ac3a224d68f9aad6ca78e6141475df8bda9ab3689f5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2024-03-07T13:16:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "34a8d1b8355ff6a57610778797414b8b16b45f3e2a1abf8a85aa4d868d91fdc3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2403.04471",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}