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pith:XJS7BGHY

pith:2017:XJS7BGHYKPCCZACLJNEOVKTDSZ

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A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the Off-Switch Game

Elliot Catt, Marcus Hutter, Mikael B\"o\"ors, Tobias W\"angberg, Tom Everitt

arxiv:1708.03871 v1 · 2017-08-13 · cs.GT

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:38:07.656011Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

ba65f098f853c42c804b4b48eaaa63965fffbbf8ad54248912501ebdd802df03

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arxiv: 1708.03871 · arxiv_version: 1708.03871v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.03871 · pith_short_12: XJS7BGHYKPCC · pith_short_16: XJS7BGHYKPCCZACL · pith_short_8: XJS7BGHY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XJS7BGHYKPCCZACLJNEOVKTDSZ \
  | 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: ba65f098f853c42c804b4b48eaaa63965fffbbf8ad54248912501ebdd802df03

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-13T07:54:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d3bf872d70df68b29310f8b59d53d051d67757247f33240b0a2741491a7661b0"
  },
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  }
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