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Wish one, genie give me a copy of your private key for the wish granting API
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2024
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There's often a rule about not wishing about wishing, either directly or indirectly. This rule's not in the story of Aladdin (at least, not Disney's version) because that would prevent what happens with Jafar at the end.
It's also not a rule in Douglas Hofstadter's book Gödel, Escher, Bach..., where Achilles and the Tortoise - characters Hofstadter frequently borrows as protagonists; his Tortoise is sapient and can talk - contrive to wish that a wish not be granted, or something like that.
And if that last paragraph (with its nested asides) gave you a headache, you'll love the book.
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Genies are magical, omnipotent beings. They are fully capable of existing in a universe with paradoxes. Guess who can't do that? A pasty little nerd that think he is clever.
Wish 1 cancels out wish 2, leaving us with the default state of granting the third wish. The genie grants the third wish by biting his tongue and ignoring how stupid the first wish was.
Doesn't work, since they are fulfilled sequentially.
Do the opposite of my next wish. -> Fulfilled, he is set to do the opposite next.
Don't fulfill my 3rd wish. -> Fulfilled, the wish does effectively nothing and he's got one left that will be fulfilled. All instructions from the first wish are done with and discarded.
Ignore my first wish. -> Fulfilled, there is nothing left to be ignored about his first wish anymore since it's already done. The wish does nothing and he successfully wasted all 3 by trying to be a smart ass.
I wonder if genies are subject to numerical integer underflow.
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Again, from the last time this was reposted, none of these are wishes.
Why not? If I wish that someone ignores something, that's a valid wish IMO.
Because they never say "wish", they just issue commands.
I dunno. If he told the djinn 'Give me a nice car' or 'Make Trump eat a pile of dog poop' in response to the offering of 3 wishes, that qualifies as a wish to me even though it doesn't contain the word.
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XP boot screen 😍
Then on the third wish he just says "nah, that won't work" and you've just burned 2 and confused yourself.
You could have had fame, riches or beauty but instead you chose to be a dick.
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That oughta teach him a lesson
How dare he try to grant my wishes