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pith:P5LI5HHW

pith:2017:P5LI5HHWZHCPHRSZCSPHQU6RWQ

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Functional Decision Theory: A New Theory of Instrumental Rationality

Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares

arxiv:1710.05060 v2 · 2017-10-13 · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:15:10.069922Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

7f568e9cf6c9c4f3c659149e7853d1b424a650583eca6fcaa4b17f46bf19cbc1

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arxiv: 1710.05060 · arxiv_version: 1710.05060v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.05060 · pith_short_12: P5LI5HHWZHCP · pith_short_16: P5LI5HHWZHCPHRSZ · pith_short_8: P5LI5HHW

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/P5LI5HHWZHCPHRSZCSPHQU6RWQ \
  | 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: 7f568e9cf6c9c4f3c659149e7853d1b424a650583eca6fcaa4b17f46bf19cbc1

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-13T19:51:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4f195f8d93c406e2f1eceda2fa426ad4b7911399864ebcf94591159f0dc8ac22"
  },
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}