Pith Number

pith:QYRISKQJ

pith:2019:QYRISKQJAI2U6MZMNGQPIC73HB

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Optimal Policies Tend to Seek Power

Alexander Matt Turner, Andrew Critch, Logan Smith, Prasad Tadepalli, Rohin Shah

arxiv:1912.01683 v10 · 2019-12-03 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QYRISKQJAI2U6MZMNGQPIC73HB}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T05:36:28.249108Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8622892a0902354f332c69a0f40bfb385a2edada61c994abbe13e925dd7fe637

Aliases

arxiv: 1912.01683 · arxiv_version: 1912.01683v10 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1912.01683 · pith_short_12: QYRISKQJAI2U · pith_short_16: QYRISKQJAI2U6MZM · pith_short_8: QYRISKQJ

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/QYRISKQJAI2U6MZMNGQPIC73HB \
  | 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: 8622892a0902354f332c69a0f40bfb385a2edada61c994abbe13e925dd7fe637

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a0b3f19a071dc82e060b2640228e4b5b7ac2b96cd0c7e9d4d4ad46d17a0cfc6d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2019-12-03T20:45:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ad0c1ad08ff7b5da0a090b2c5c3ee28aea8b392c86d2a7a80f0397c58ddcaaed"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1912.01683",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 10
  }
}