You find you can no longer lie.
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You attempt to do this, but you find yourself unable to say you have three wishes, as that would make you wrong.
And you will always be right.
I read this in Baldur's gate narrator's voice
honestly, not a bad power.
"next week lottery numbers are _______"
"The best thing I can do with my life right now is ___________"
"next week lottery numbers are......... impossible for me to know"
"the best thing I can do with my life right now is ...... something I wish I knew"
The curse can be stubbornly unhelpful no matter what.
It won't be easy as you'll still have to guess the right thing, but you can probably make it work.
Only have to guess 10 times the number of digits though, quite doable for a lottery win!
Your poorly optimizing. With a linear search, you only need 9 per digit, a binary search will get it all done in like 4 or 5 guesses
Batman
Username checks out. I'd expect nothing less from the DC world's greatest detective.
You can make a random number generator and start reading the numbers, if you can say them, you are right, easy, you don't even need to think at that point
I mean, with lotto numbers you could just start trying to count. Once you can say the number, you move on to the next one. Depending on how the wish works, you could even try just sounding things out.
The meaning of life is mmmmmmmmaaaaaaaaaasssssssssstuuuuurrrrrrrrrrb-“ Hmm… What would come after the B? “The meaning of life is masturbaaaa-“… Oh. OH.
but whatever I guess will be right.
No, no, no. You'll be blocked when you try to guess the wrong thing. You still have to try guessing on your won.
still not hard, the first number is [strained noise],[strained noise],[strained noise],[strained noise],4.
FOUR
The lottery numbers haven't been picked yet, so nothing would be correct until they get picked.
What if i say "next lottery numbers of [company that does it] [game name] will be ___ ___ ___ 7"?
will be.... impossible to know will be.... a sequence of numbers between 1 and 69
You could be compelled to say any number of unhelpful things instead of the numbers.
It's stil easy you just narrow down, "will be any number between 2 and 30" ok sure, "will be any number between 14 and 20", "will be 16 and 18" yep, it's def 17
You are assuming you'll even be allowed to utter specifc numbers at all.
Think a genie scenario would have you utterly blocked before the first syllable that could possibly be helpful.
That doesn't negate that they haven't been chosen yet, so there is no correct answer, and you won't be able to say any number at all for that statement. In fact, it may make you mute until the numbers are chosen as anything you say after that would be incorrect.
Alternatively, “was” is past tense. Meaning everything you’ve said in the past was correct. But that has no bearing on the future. The wish would undoubtedly fuck up a lot of things in the past from little daily white lies compounding (or even bigger childhood lies that could have drastically altered the world) but wouldn’t have any impact on things going forwards.
A genie would find a way to twist the wish for maximum suffering. And having your 4 year old “watch me, I can fly” lie be true would have some long lasting implications. Likely even leading up to a paradox where you were never even able to make the wish in the first place, because some childhood lie ended up getting you maimed or killed before you ever rubbed the lamp.
The way this works in reality is with retrocausality. In the same sense that a molecule is controlled by a cell but still influences the cell, phenomequalitesselation is where God or similar conceptualization of retrocausal force (time travel) controls the unfolding of history, but our most human choices influence the strange attractor of the transcendental object at the end of the universe, so we have free will in a deterministic system, which is really illusory, like the self.
"If I wish for three more wishes, you will grant them with no catches."
Keep doing this, over and over again, trying different strategies. It's a way to test and validate genie loopholes (as you will be unable to state that if it's wrong).
Though if the genie was smart, being "wrong" would be qualified to your own internal knowledge, I suppose. E.g. you can't knowingly lie.
Monkey's paw genie: you physically can't verbalize that you have 3 wishes left when you only have 2.
Genie is looking at you like this because it's weird watching only the right half of a human form sentences without issues. It's also weird that the person didn't seem fazed by the removal of their left half.
It's more existentially terrifying if the wish operates differently. Instead of adjusting reality to make your words true, it simply constrains you to only be able to speak true and correct statements. So when you try and speak, "no, I have three wishes left," what comes out is "I have two wishes left."
In particularly powerful forms, this wish could be used to solve metaphysical and existential questions. You literally can only speak the Truth. Want to know the day you die? Pick a random date and try to say, "I will die on ____ from ____." Your actual date and cause of death will come out instead.
I mean, I get what you are saying, but also like every other comment is talking about how the wish goes wrong by not letting you speak something that isn't true and I just wanted to explore other ways the genie could "monkey's paw" the wish. ie removing the wisher's left half. "They'll be all right."
Your IQ drops 80 points while deep seated feelings of racism bloom in your soul. A Red hat appears on your head. The Genie says “Now you are always right”. You immediately turn your self into ICE since you are an immigrant. The monkeys paw has struck again
Granted, the genie produces a large sword and slices you perfectly down the middle. The left half of you burns away to dust. "You are now... always right," he says to your right half as you flop to the ground. Not that it matters much as your consciousness quickly fades.
“You will be right for the rest of your life.”
“I wish you had left me alone!”
The genie rematerializes your left half. Now your right half evaporates and fades to dust. “You are now left alone.”
- Tales from Bad Pun Dad Joke Genie
Wish granted. For a time, you were always right. You aren't anymore.
Does the past change to meet what you believed, or does what you believed in the past change to what was right at the time?
You find that all of your "left" muscles have been paralyzed.
I've never understood how people go straight to "wishing for more wishes" and then immediately give up when the genie tells them no.
An individual wish is not by default limited by anything meaningful. One wish can easily be worth thousands of other lesser wishes. All you'd have to do is wish for the ability to grant yourself wishes. Or write up a "contract" or something and simply request that the thing you wrote was true, and that contract could have any number of things written on it. You could even go heavy on rules lawyering to get around "monkey's paw" risks when you write it all up.
Its ultimately just a restriction of language. If you wanted to wish for a boat, you wouldn't wish for each individual component and manufacturing process of a boat in extreme detail, you'd just ask for a boat. You can do that with any arbitrarily defined thing of your choice that you yourself define.
That genie looks like it's 5 minutes away from a cardiac arrest
“You’re absolutely right! Let’s begin with your first wish (truly your second 😜🦅😉🙈)”
Seeing the comments, and generally all the monkey paw arrangements, I remember the genie in that one strip where he clarifies all the various things that needs to be considered when the person wished they could fly.
I personally feel that he is the best one, irrespective of how tedious it would be.
Couldn't a genie interpret this as "You can't say anything that isn't already true"?
Like you couldn't actually say words unless it was a truth? Not the rewriting of what truth is?
I feel like the proper response by the genie should be "yes, you're right, what's your first wish?"
You can always be right without ever being correct.
Point goes to genie on this one. You're gonna get a cursed wish and need to use another wish to undo it. Way to fuck it up, Chippy, you'll be lucky if you stay alive long enough to fix this.
arrested development https://youtu.be/zadJoBqPQVc?t=214
That’s some galaxy-brain loophole logic right there 😂





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