A genie appears and grants you three wishes. Each time you make a wish there is a 50% chance the genie will be genuinely helpful and a 50% chance it will try to twist the literal wording of your wishes in ways you won't like.

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A genie appears and grants you three wishes. Each time you make a wish there is a 50% chance the genie will be genuinely helpful and a 50% chance it will try to twist the literal wording of your wishes in ways you won't like.

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whargolflorp
what if the meaning of the wish itself is malicious, so he tries to manipulate it and ends up doing good? or the wording is not ambiguous at all?

JonThompsonsEmail
You totally have the ability to try to make the wish not twistable, or double trick the genie. That doesn't mean you'll succeed though.

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A genie appears and grants you one wish. The genie is genuinely helpful and will give you what it thinks you really wished for.

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16% prefer A genie appears and grants you three wishes. Each time you make a wish there is a 50% chance the genie will be genuinely helpful and a 50% chance it will try to twist the literal wording of your wishes in ways you won't like.

A genie appears and instructs you to write down 100 wishes. The wishes must be substantially different. Once they are all written, three are chosen at random and granted.

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19% prefer A genie appears and grants you three wishes. Each time you make a wish there is a 50% chance the genie will be genuinely helpful and a 50% chance it will try to twist the literal wording of your wishes in ways you won't like.

A genie begins secretly monitoring you without your knowledge at some point in the near future. The first time you say the words "I wish", it will grant whatever you wished for. It will not try to deliberately twist the meaning of your wish but it only has your words to guide it.

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45% prefer A genie appears and grants you three wishes. Each time you make a wish there is a 50% chance the genie will be genuinely helpful and a 50% chance it will try to twist the literal wording of your wishes in ways you won't like.

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