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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

This is dumb. There's no reason for the genie to iterate though it in a loop.

Wish one is granted, which simply switches wish two. Wish two is granted (in reverse). Then wish one is ignored, restoring one wish.

If you wish to have a hotdog and then eat it, you were still given a hotdog. The wish was still granted.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

In the fourth panel the smart genie just says.

“As you wish” and promptly teleports away with his lamp.

Regardless of how you interpret it, 3 wishes are spend and nothing more needs to change or happen

[–] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 days ago

Genie cuts your head off for trifling with them because they are powerful demons and not computers.

[–] sqw@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

One of my favorite examples of a similar kind of self-referential language loop is the following:

This sentence has threee erors.

(Hofstadter)

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago

Oh that's so fucking clever. I kept looking for the third error and after a good 15 seconds it hit me. That's delightful.

[–] turdas@suppo.fi 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This isn't really a paradox.

On panel 3, the genie ignores the first wish, which means the wish in panel 1 never happens. Guy gets 1 wish back, but because he wished for his 3rd wish to not be fulfilled, that wish will do nothing. Genie peaces out because his job here is done.

[–] sqw@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

you dont get wishes back from these djinn. thems the rules

[–] turdas@suppo.fi 7 points 2 days ago

I'm sure they'll make an exception when it works against the person making the wishes.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ha ha, I have screwed you over and myself in the process making me the victor 😎

[–] Rug_Pisser@piefed.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Wish 1: grant me the knowledge of how to win land wars in Asia.

[–] MrKoyun@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

are they dumb? why they wasting their wishes like that

[–] trainsrkool@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Reality BSODs