Pith Number

pith:UBC7RMSD

pith:2026:UBC7RMSDNHHK77QQQBWN777V6B

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The Theory of Mind Utility: Formal Specification of a Mentalizing Mechanism

Nikolos Gurney, Stacy Marsella

arxiv:2606.12721 v1 · 2026-06-10 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UBC7RMSDNHHK77QQQBWN777V6B}

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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	2026-06-12T01:08:47.291306Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a045f8b24369ceaffe10806cdffff5f067e9e2bebf595a90e64550c54fe7d17f

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.12721 · arxiv_version: 2606.12721v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.12721 · pith_short_12: UBC7RMSDNHHK · pith_short_16: UBC7RMSDNHHK77QQ · pith_short_8: UBC7RMSD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UBC7RMSDNHHK77QQQBWN777V6B \
  | 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: a045f8b24369ceaffe10806cdffff5f067e9e2bebf595a90e64550c54fe7d17f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b708e77e74c237167dbaed51746d759343032cfe2619f62a18fcc17ed9af96f4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-10T22:11:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3662ebafc2dddd779cd2b00a82b3331780ea29a1dabe8730736e08c1cf2be60f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.12721",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}