Pith Number

pith:VCXKF76P

pith:2026:VCXKF76PECK52AN53MX6FDCPK2

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The Innate Economic Preferences of Language Models

Joshua Foster, Joy Buchanan

arxiv:2607.26288 v1 · 2026-07-28 · econ.EM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VCXKF76PECK52AN53MX6FDCPK2}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-30T01:17:55.621682Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	unsigned_v0
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8aea2ffcf2095dd01bddb2fe28c4f568900948a6a2992ccdf460be3b4bae6c3

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.26288 · arxiv_version: 2607.26288v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.26288 · pith_short_12: VCXKF76PECK5 · pith_short_16: VCXKF76PECK52AN5 · pith_short_8: VCXKF76P

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/VCXKF76PECK52AN53MX6FDCPK2 \
  | 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: a8aea2ffcf2095dd01bddb2fe28c4f568900948a6a2992ccdf460be3b4bae6c3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "051fcc2a3279acb01c1476a63c62d5b53999c547c4ddff104ecd31cb163539ff",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.EM",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-28T21:28:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3135c96e4d13178351c9b642140aaf07334cbac4a7fca75f42107675da92e142"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.26288",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}