Pith Number

pith:UTTVDK6Y

pith:2026:UTTVDK6YR6NFDSQNVD7POCQQPB

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Why Sampling Is Not Choosing: Intentionality, Agency, and Moral Responsibility in Large Language Models

Joseph Keshet

arxiv:2606.13441 v1 · 2026-06-11 · cs.AI · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UTTVDK6YR6NFDSQNVD7POCQQPB}

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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	2026-06-12T01:10:02.698413Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a4e751abd88f9a51ca0da8fef70a10784883fabfbf9e70d4ce9f76ae7a76f27d

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.13441 · arxiv_version: 2606.13441v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.13441 · pith_short_12: UTTVDK6YR6NF · pith_short_16: UTTVDK6YR6NFDSQN · pith_short_8: UTTVDK6Y

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UTTVDK6YR6NFDSQNVD7POCQQPB \
  | 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: a4e751abd88f9a51ca0da8fef70a10784883fabfbf9e70d4ce9f76ae7a76f27d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f211e232989838beeca5a2870544ff88321da898ed76f3d431e1325254ae7bec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-11T15:03:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "375920878d55ec2ae5c599fcc581c08fa375911c1a952137f4667c564f68e07f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.13441",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}