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You have 3 wishes (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by EfreetSK@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
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[-] De_Narm@lemmy.world 237 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 23 points 1 year ago

Also if the genie is a thinking agent or even just capable of detecting an infinite loop this falls apart.

[-] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You are now stuck in an infinite loop with a rabbit and turtle.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

I love your username. Is it meant to be a naughty bilingual pun?

[-] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I am a strange loop

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Yup, the genie just did that last bit to make him feel like he actually outsmarted him or something. In reality he's just glad he doesn't have to be around him any more.

[-] Snowclone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I like it, it's a love story, everyone goes home happy.

[-] Asifall@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I feel like this guy plays mtg

[-] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Weird too, cus you could destroy the universe with 2 or even just 1 wish maybe?.

2 wishes: Repeat wish 2, repeat wish 1. Universe ends in magical overload.

1 wish: Don't fulfill this wish. I feel like that's less magical end of the universe and just death of the genie I guess?

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

First rule: don't fuck with djinn, hags, or fae. Demons maybe, at least you know what they want.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago

You could have had fame, riches or beauty but instead you chose to be a dick.

[-] NABDad@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Do you think I asked for a 10 inch pianist?

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

My smartass genie response would be to summon a severed 10 inch penis in their hands.

[-] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

I would send them a jar from an animal in the Icelandic Phallological Museum. They never specified the species.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

Gratz, you played yourself and get no wishes.

[-] don@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

maybe the real you played yourself was the wishes they made along the way

[-] Lightor@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Then on the third wish he just says "nah, that won't work" and you've just burned 2 and confused yourself.

[-] Lightrider@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

Those aren't wishes, just commands.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Ever heard of "your wish is my command?"

[-] Lightrider@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah... That presumes you made a wish and not a command.

This is also assuming the Genie isn't a spiteful PoS that will just kill the Asker. There's no rule against that.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, genies typically aren't in the wish-granting business. The only reason why people associate genies with wish-granting is because of the story of Aladdin.

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And yet... Monkey paw curls

[-] key@lemmy.keychat.org 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] HeapOfDogs@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Does everyone not understand this yet? The only winning move with a genie is to not play.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 18 points 1 year ago

Wrong, and geniephobic.

[-] then_three_more@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago
  1. I wish to know the true name of the genie who is granting me wishes.

  2. I wish [genie's true name] to be freed, mortal and without magical powers, now and henceforth.

[-] HeapOfDogs@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

You are now trapped in a bottle.

[-] Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I think I saw a video once explaining how the only winning move is to make your wish be to let the genie grant you what you desire most.

Because only the genie as the wish granter has access to all possibilities a wish good grant, but you don't, so your wish could always be misinterpreted, while the genies knowledge cannot be.

[-] HeapOfDogs@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

You are now dead. Killed by 100 million dollars, in gold, falling onto your head.

[-] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Wish one, genie give me a copy of your private key for the wish granting API

[-] Godnroc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Granted, you are now a genie with access to the wish granting API private key. Make all the copies you like.

[-] MustaSpiraali@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Genies hate this one trick.

[-] palordrolap@kbin.run 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The Genie does say "and ixnay on the wishing for more wishes" after listing the three main rules.

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