Pith Number

pith:ZD3KSXSJ

pith:2018:ZD3KSXSJ2OKX6ACL33YDXRPIFU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Open-endedness in AI systems, cellular evolution and intellectual discussions

Kushal Shah

arxiv:1812.10900 v1 · 2018-12-28 · cs.AI · physics.bio-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZD3KSXSJ2OKX6ACL33YDXRPIFU}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-17T23:57:16.811851Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c8f6a95e49d3957f004bdef03bc5e82d27e8174954141a30b25ebe47067d40b7

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.10900 · arxiv_version: 1812.10900v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.10900 · pith_short_12: ZD3KSXSJ2OKX · pith_short_16: ZD3KSXSJ2OKX6ACL · pith_short_8: ZD3KSXSJ

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/ZD3KSXSJ2OKX6ACL33YDXRPIFU \
  | 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: c8f6a95e49d3957f004bdef03bc5e82d27e8174954141a30b25ebe47067d40b7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "225ea106d753273a40844e7d68465ed8966309d7a9cc649c12640819036d0772",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.bio-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-28T06:11:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dfe54a67e2ee3047f4306068da83488bcc9b7bc0d754c72da05653d9c5cc6983"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.10900",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}