Spyke

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

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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.

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

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

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

This sentence has threee erors.

(Hofstadter)

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suppo.fi

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.

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

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

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

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lemmy.world

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

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You reached the end