• PeriodicallyPedantic
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    16 hours ago

    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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        12 hours ago

        a wish with multiple components could be considered multiple wishes, just like if you were to say “I wish for riches and the ability to fly” is two wishes.
        Since you wished for “no malicious compliance” last, it wasn’t in effect when the other wishes were granted, include for the wish of no malicious compliance.

        But even if you wish for it first, we already see that some wishes aren’t granted, like the wish for more wishes. And we also know that the genie isndishone because it is maliciously complying. So why do you think the genie would be honest about if it actually fulfilled the wish for no malicious compliance?

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            6 hours ago

            I disagree for the reason stated above.
            A genie may also disagree for the reasons stated above.

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              6 hours ago

              But a genie doesn’t have the power to disagree. They can try all sorts of mischief when fulfilling a wish, but they’re still bound to fulfil a wish to the letter.

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                The genie has the power to disagree about granting extra wishes.
                The genie isn’t bound to be honest.
                Why do you think that’s the only thing they can disagree on? And why do you think they’d be honest that they have to fulfill the wish to the letter? And why do you think they’d consider that all a single wish? And why do you think that they’d tell you if they didn’t?

                Genies want to grant wishes that undermine the wishes intention. You don’t think they’d do that on a wish about not undermining the wish’s intention?