Pith Number

pith:ZG3KF267

pith:2026:ZG3KF267R6E23M7GBM24AB67FE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Impossibility of Eliciting Latent Knowledge

Francis Rhys Ward, Jonathan Richens, Korbinian Friedl, Paul Yushin Rapoport, Tom Everitt

arxiv:2606.12268 v1 · 2026-06-10 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZG3KF267R6E23M7GBM24AB67FE}

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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	2026-06-11T01:10:58.827951Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c9b6a2ebdf8f89adb3e60b35c007df290b9203dc722d25d0e843a1a0895c4595

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.12268 · arxiv_version: 2606.12268v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.12268 · pith_short_12: ZG3KF267R6E2 · pith_short_16: ZG3KF267R6E23M7G · pith_short_8: ZG3KF267

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/ZG3KF267R6E23M7GBM24AB67FE \
  | 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: c9b6a2ebdf8f89adb3e60b35c007df290b9203dc722d25d0e843a1a0895c4595

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d6bc727818a7b5b0a177ec4fa02a83b0a29d90ea9f7ab48cb2b31dc45b21030f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-10T16:11:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3854dfd6124b0b6d0124f0c17e29f2e54527a79a2a16780db6c3da1f7649b268"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.12268",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}