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pith:RRLPFGP4

pith:2026:RRLPFGP47SVNNJIVY75VAYT4JO

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Reasoning Theater: Disentangling Model Beliefs from Chain-of-Thought

Annabel Ma, Atticus Geiger, Eric Bigelow, Jack Merullo, Max Loeffler, Owen Lewis, Raphael Sarfati, Siddharth Boppana

arxiv:2603.05488 v4 · 2026-03-05 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-05-29T02:05:42.543482Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8c56f299fcfcaad6a515c7fb50627c4bab772a2a21cf012a00d2278ebca7ee67

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arxiv: 2603.05488 · arxiv_version: 2603.05488v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.05488 · pith_short_12: RRLPFGP47SVN · pith_short_16: RRLPFGP47SVNNJIV · pith_short_8: RRLPFGP4

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RRLPFGP47SVNNJIVY75VAYT4JO \
  | 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: 8c56f299fcfcaad6a515c7fb50627c4bab772a2a21cf012a00d2278ebca7ee67

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
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    "submitted_at": "2026-03-05T18:55:16Z",
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