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.
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.
A fine career as a lawyer awaits you