Yuddish is a constructed language inspired by Eliezer Yudkowsky, Bayesianism, and LessWrong, built from Yiddish vocabulary.
In Yuddish, when you say something is true, you also say how sure you are and why you believe it. You put a number on your confidence and say whether you saw it yourself, heard it from someone else, or worked it out. Questions, wishes, and commands have their own grammar, too.
נעם עמעץ בױט אַ צו מעכטיק בױשׂכל־סיסטעם אונטער דאָס הײַנטיק באַדינגונגען. איך עף־אַװ=זיך דערװאַרטן, אַז יעד אײנציק מיטגליד פֿון דאָס מענטש־מין און אַל ביאָלאָגיש לעבן אױף דאָס ערד עפֿן־אױ־זיב=פּאָן באַלד דערנאָך שטאַרבן.
Nem emets boyt a tsu mekhtik boyseykhl-sistem unter dos hayntik badingungen. Ikh ef-av=zikh derwartn, az yed eyntsik mitglid fun dos mentsh-min un al biologish lebn oyf dos erd efn-oy-zib=pon bald dernokh shtarbn.
“If somebody builds a too-powerful AI, under present conditions, I expect that every single member of the human species and all biological life on Earth dies shortly thereafter.”
Eliezer Yudkowsky · TIME · 29 March 2023Credences are reconstructed for the translation: av for “I expect”; +7 bits (128:1 odds) for the conditional forecast. Eliezer is welcome to provide feedback on his epistemic status at the time.