Litany of Tarski

Dos litanye fun Tarski · דאָס ליטאַניע פֿון טאַרסקי

Hebrew script

נעם דאָס קעסטל האָט אַ דיאַמאַנט.
װינטש זאָל איך גלײבן ציט [דאָס קעסטל האָט אַ דיאַמאַנט] אױס. אױס.
נעם דאָס קעסטל האָט קײן דיאַמאַנט.
װינטש זאָל איך גלײבן ציט [דאָס קעסטל האָט קײן דיאַמאַנט] אױס. אױס.
װינטש זאָל איך זיך ניט צו גלײבונגען צוקלעפּן װאָס איך אפשר ניט װיל האָבן.

Latin reading

Nem dos kestl hot a diamant.
Vintsh zol ikh gleybn tsit [dos kestl hot a diamant] oys. Oys.
Nem dos kestl hot keyn diamant.
Vintsh zol ikh gleybn tsit [dos kestl hot keyn diamant] oys. Oys.
Vintsh zol ikh zikh nit tsu gleybungen tsuklepn vos ikh efsher nit vil hobn.

Translation note

This translation adapts the diamond-in-a-box Litany from Yudkowsky's “The Meditation on Curiosity”, named for Alfred Tarski. Its sense is: if the box has a diamond, may I believe that it has one; if it has none, may I believe that it has none; may I avoid attachment to beliefs I might not want. Nem supplies each supposition and vintsh expresses the desired belief. The Litany makes no empirical claim about the box and therefore needs no invented EF credence. The final relative clause remains inside the wish; efsher means “perhaps.”