• De_Narm@lemmy.world
    250·
    6 months 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.

    • Snowclone@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months ago

      If you ask for fame, they make you the FBIs most wanted child abuser.

      If you ask for riches millions of dollars in other people’s money is wired into your account, again, fbi most wanted.

      If you ask for bueaty you see your reflection in a lake and can’t look away, the lake is at Area 51, you are black bagged and dropped into a 50ft abandoned mine shaft and you survive the fall, there’s water pooled at the bottom, you drink it for nearly a weak waiting to die of starvation, a mule deer falls in, you eat it raw for a month even when it’s rotting you’re too desperate to stop yourself as all this does is prolong your misery waist deep in filth, total darkness, the voices come… you talk to them… they talk back… you fade in and out of consciousness… a light… noise… meaningless… who is talking… it means nothing… what is this terrible burning light…

    • don@lemm.ee
      2·
      6 months ago

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

  • Lightor@lemmy.world
    30·
    6 months ago

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

    • rbn@sopuli.xyz
      51·
      6 months ago

      Why not? If I wish that someone ignores something, that’s a valid wish IMO.

        • rbn@sopuli.xyz
          6·
          6 months ago

          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.

          • bitwolf@lemmy.one
            11·
            6 months ago

            But then the genie would simply fulfill your next three statements, rather than your next three wishes.

  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
    12·
    6 months ago

    Even if any of the three wishes are deemed valid or invalid the net result will be nothing happens, no?

  • key@lemmy.keychat.orgEnglish
    11·
    6 months 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.

    • then_three_more@lemmy.world
      9·
      6 months 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.

    • Lumisal@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 months 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.

        • Lumisal@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 months ago

          Genie would know you don’t desire to die though, or that you would want it in gold, so that wouldn’t happen.

    • Godnroc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

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

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    4·
    6 months ago

    I liked the one from that classic twilight zone episode better wherte the (i believe mathematician) told the genie to “get lost”