Pith Number

pith:OTCIM2WH

pith:2016:OTCIM2WH27COCLBA6EIB7FGOYE

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Avoiding Wireheading with Value Reinforcement Learning

Marcus Hutter, Tom Everitt

arxiv:1605.03143 v1 · 2016-05-10 · cs.AI

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\pithnumber{OTCIM2WH27COCLBA6EIB7FGOYE}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:15:07.435920Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

74c4866ac7d7c4e12c20f1101f94cec11e43f31998ae3fa95963fdaab4325750

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.03143 · arxiv_version: 1605.03143v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.03143 · pith_short_12: OTCIM2WH27CO · pith_short_16: OTCIM2WH27COCLBA · pith_short_8: OTCIM2WH

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OTCIM2WH27COCLBA6EIB7FGOYE \
  | 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: 74c4866ac7d7c4e12c20f1101f94cec11e43f31998ae3fa95963fdaab4325750

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0f299bacaf603ec01594c49da7691b7d61c34222f66265e451ac6eea3d2f9086",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-10T18:28:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e6cc9ead74d3467ccac97be7e771faf8fd831a05966671e53ba63df7aad24728"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.03143",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}