Pith Number

pith:OF462NTO

pith:2026:OF462NTOHOO7ILAG7H65YJOL75

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The Deliberative Deficit: An Empirical Critique of LLMs in Democratic Discourse

Maurice Flechtner

arxiv:2608.10186 v1 · 2026-08-10 · cs.MA · cs.AI · cs.CY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OF462NTOHOO7ILAG7H65YJOL75}

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First computed	2026-08-12T00:23:00.367792Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7179ed366e3b9df42c06f9fddc25cbff4166f0ee331a607e104fdb772424074a

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.10186 · arxiv_version: 2608.10186v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.10186 · pith_short_12: OF462NTOHOO7 · pith_short_16: OF462NTOHOO7ILAG · pith_short_8: OF462NTO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OF462NTOHOO7ILAG7H65YJOL75 \
  | 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: 7179ed366e3b9df42c06f9fddc25cbff4166f0ee331a607e104fdb772424074a

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.MA",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-10T19:57:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4cc8810cf7eaee017abcb55f56a2cb2a76031a986012997d5e5e6bc78a141d85"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}