Pith Number

pith:2CYBL7F2

pith:2023:2CYBL7F2PBHT2HA4Z33RAUBZDI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Ignorance Is Bliss: The Screening Effect of (Noisy) Information

Felix Zhiyu Feng, Gaoqing Zhang, Wenyu Wang, Yufeng Wu

arxiv:2302.11128 v3 · 2023-02-22 · econ.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2CYBL7F2PBHT2HA4Z33RAUBZDI}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-05T08:53:07.303256Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d0b015fcba784f3d1c1ccef71050391a399b263ef0ad59e5e1da56c9ec4355e3

Aliases

arxiv: 2302.11128 · arxiv_version: 2302.11128v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2302.11128 · pith_short_12: 2CYBL7F2PBHT · pith_short_16: 2CYBL7F2PBHT2HA4 · pith_short_8: 2CYBL7F2

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2CYBL7F2PBHT2HA4Z33RAUBZDI \
  | 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: d0b015fcba784f3d1c1ccef71050391a399b263ef0ad59e5e1da56c9ec4355e3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3f92474061a8c2ed441545d9a69599aa381ba8ffb2196517cce1c070db53e569",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.TH",
    "submitted_at": "2023-02-22T03:49:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "17569105eb6cc2421ad16878fde234790bc1dfa1038faee27024926a5fd81e45"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2302.11128",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}