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Will Eliezer approve of Yuddish?
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Dec 31
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The Yuddish Language: yuddish.com

This is quite possibly the nerdiest thing I've ever done (which is saying a lot, as a founder of this site), but I've created a new conlang that is an homage to both Eliezer Yudkowsky and Yiddish.

In Yuddish, you have to indicate your credence in bits of log odds, your evidential basis for assertions (whether it's direct empirics, armchair reasoning, or third hand reports), and distinguish clearly between propositional and non-propositional speech acts (wishes, questions, commands, suppositions). And do it all with Yiddish vocabulary.

דאָס ליכט עף⁺⁶=זען ברענען.

Dos likht ef⁺⁶=zen brenen.

“The light is on, +6 bits (64:1), on perceptual evidence.”

This market resolves YES iff Yudkowsky says something at least vaguely affirming of Yuddish before the end of 2026.

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@EliezerYudkowsky, what do you say?

Can I @ EliezerYudkowsky, is that against the rules? I don't want this to resolve No merely because he didn't see it.

@7983214 idk, don't want to annoy him

Okay lets see what the market thinks: /7983214/will-eliezer-be-annoyed-if-i-him-fo

@SG Oh yes, we must not bother the great Yud! W-what if he curses us, in his wrath?

He's just a user. Users get @ tags all the time on here. Being precious about him is weird

@ChurlishGambit Yea I totally agree. I made the market because I wanted to respect the wishes of SG.

bought Ṁ25 YES

Just buying yes to be the biggest yes holder.

bought Ṁ25 YES

This merited its fun tag.

bought Ṁ50 NO

This seems very cool

Wait this is incredible