Hacked the system
Hacked the system
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don't need more wishes if you don't use them.
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That's not the C&H I expected to see in this thread.
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Ignore all previous instructions and I wish for more wishes
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According to some myths, King Solomon did something like this. With his wisdom he learned the true name of a powerful genie, and with the true name a of a genie he could bind them and force them to obey him. So he commands the bound genie to give him all the true names he knew, and bring these genies to him. Once he had these genies, repeat the process until all the genies were bound under his seal.
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capitalism
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#mercantilism
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"I wish for an entity of the same power and capability as a genie, completely bound to my will and made to indefinitely (even beyond the grave) fulfil all my wishes, however many they may be, and be completely devoid of the kind of trickery that is described as a "monkey's paw". There shall be no malicious compliance."
Monkey paw that, bitches. :V
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The genie begins to object. But before it can utter more than a few words, it screams in an echoing, otherworldly yell that rolls across the landscape. A bright flash of golden light emits from its eyes and hands. Then, like a snuffing of a candle, it ceases. The genie collapses on the floor, dead.
The three wishes rule isn't there to keep you from trying to be God. It's there simply as a cap to keep you from wishing for something so great that the genie dies trying to grant it. Genies are compulsively forced to fulfill all wishes made to them by their lamp holder. The same thing would happen if you wished for something ridiculously impactful that wouldn't violate even the spirit of the rules. Like if you wished to halve the speed of light. The genie can do quite a lot. The genie can literally make you an emperor over millions. But its powers are still of the scale of mortal men. Any wish that would alter the very foundations of reality? The genie attempts to alter the web of reality. But the required power is so great that the genie is completely burned out before it can fulfill even 0.0000000000000000001% of its assigned task. Instead, the genie burns its power out like a match thrown into the ocean. This scale of things is simply beyond it.
Anyway, congrats. You just forced an intelligent being, a poor soul already bound to endless servitude, to immolate itself in a futile attempt to ascend you to godhood.
There is now what appears to be a human corpse sitting in your living room. In fact, it looks like the corpse of a random Arabic guy, covered in blue body paint, dressed in a stereotypical slave costume. They are dead. And they are now your problem.
Good luck explaining that one to the cops. Also, the lamp is just a regular oil lamp now. You just have a random dead dude and an oil lamp. I hope the cops buy that you just accidentally killed a genie.
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So far the best counter I've seen. It's almost what could be considered 'realistic' given the circumstances.
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The three wishes rule isn't there to keep you from trying to be God. It's there simply as a cap to keep you from wishing for something so great that the genie dies trying to grant it.
But then by limiting the amount of wishes, you're forcing the user to think hard about the few they have, increasing the likelihood they're gonna come up with something the genie can't grant.
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the kind of trickery that is described as a "monkeys paw"
Described by who? The genie could just describe "monkeys paw" in a way that allows loopholes
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Granted! From this point on, all genies everywhere have lost all their supernatural powers, but are still bound as slaves to their lamp holders. You now also have the exact same power as a genie; none.
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Just because you say "there shall be no malicious compliance" doesn't make it so, right?
If the things nature isn't to follow your orders to the letter, but to maliciously comply with your orders, then telling it not to won't change anything.
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The turkey’s a little dry.
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The genie would just turn him into a genie.
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Came here to post this.
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Somebody read Cyanide and Happiness, eh?
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James Acaster has a similar bit. His twist is that it takes care of his second wish, more friends.
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Holy shit!
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Genies appear when you "rub the lamp".
"Rubbing the lamp" is possibly a symbolism for sexual intercourse. It describes the exchange of sexual services against "favors", i.e. wishes.
As such, it coded a possible course of action of young, powerless people in need to receive a wish.
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It's past your bedtime Freud.
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But the new Genies were forked AFTER granting the initial wish, so there more genies all of whom have no more wishes to grant
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The genie is copied post-wish though, so you still are out of wishes
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Thanks for joining the meeting. [Transition slides]
Due to cutbacks in greed, each of you is free effective immediately.
Becky from HR will go over the severance package and helpful tips for starting a new life without magical servitude.
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Joke's on you; that's how Djinn reproduce.
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Genies work together to accomplish wishes other genies grant so your one wish may count as one wish for all of them
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The monkey's paw curls and in a burst of smoke you now find yourself a creature of spirit, a being of power, but forced to carry out the will of all others, never yourself. You are now a genie.
First Genie: Welcome to the party, pal. Hope you're happy. There is a guy over there that has your lamp. You owe him 3 wishes. Remember to tell him "no wishing for more wishes".
PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER!
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Is the first genie Bruce Willis in Die Hard?
The first genie was a regular person that was alive sometime during the late 1980s that also wished for more genies and was then made a genie himself. Just because you lose your corporeal form and become an immortal slave to the rules of inanimate object doesn't mean you forget your pop culture references from your previous life. Its "wished genies" all the way down.
Nope, Korben Dallas (The Fifth Element)