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The "crackers" might be weird: I think she's preparing a tray of assorted hors-d'oeuvres, and she has placed the serving tray on a cold flat surface stove in order to look cute for the photo. Because it's sitting on the stove, the tray has morphed into a frying-pan-like curved plate.
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Noo, it's a stainless-steel saucepan sitting in front of a wooden knife station. There's nothing strange about that!
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Humans were hunted by predators during their evolution, which gives rise to another type of story: horror!
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We'd call it "SPiNDLE‬'s Midriff Collection" and people would pay $50/person to see it.
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I'm hoping we can get enough for an entire art gallery. There would be enormous wall-sized midriffs, and people would stand in small groups, admiring them, until their legs got tired. Then they would seat themselves on small couches in the center of the room, so as to continue to bask in the art.
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Midriffs! We need them!
You are the best at it, and you've barely done any. (Not nearly enough, anyway.)
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I keep coming back to this... It's so beautiful.
You're one of my absolute favorite artists.
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(b) The belly button is at the narrow point of the waist, and just above the clothing waistline.
Anyway :) It made me really happy to see you get those two details right, when almost no one ever does.
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(a) The distance between a skull icon and the belly button is equal to the distance between the belly button and the kitty icon! That's exactly how it is on a real person!
(Artists often shorten that lower distance, because it's hidden in everyday life: If they don't see it, they don't draw it...)
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Wow! You got two details right that almost no one ever gets right:
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Very good. That makes a lot of sense.
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So what should the mother do?
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A much simpler example would be the case where a well-meaning mother denies her child ice cream before dinner: Is the mother acting benevolently from the point of view of the child? At that moment, the child would probably say no. But, after they've grown up, they would probably say yes.
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Sorry to go off on a tangent: I know your point was that the genie must be intelligent, and an intelligent being can make its own case-by-case rulings to thwart you if necessary.
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In magic, what handles the decision making? Unless you have a clear explanation for the scuff marks, it's hard to believe in magic.
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Right. And what is the date on each penny? And where was it minted? And where are all of the countless little scuff marks? And so on. It's far beyond what a human mind can handle! You need something else to handle it for you. In physics, simple rules give rise to everything.
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(The actual fable was much better. I think it involved missing limbs and a marriage? Something like that!)
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So! Was failing out of college a good thing or a bad thing? I don't think anyone in the story really knew, including the protagonist. If even the protagonist doesn't know whether that event was benevolent or malevolent, then what should the genie do?
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BUT his job as a CEO causes him to ignore the early symptoms of what turns out to be cancer, causing him to die an early death--missing out on *decades* of what would have been a fulfilling life, had he not failed out of college...
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BUT it creates him the opportunity for him to build what will eventually become a billion-dollar software company. He is the CEO, with wealth and status, and now everyone thinks he was very lucky to have failed out of college!
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What exactly does benevolent mean for you? There is a fable. I no longer recall how it went, but the idea was there is a young man (for example) who has a rough time in college and ends up failing. He winds up sleeping on a couch, and everyone feels this is a tragedy.
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If we assume that the genie will try to fulfill your wish in the way that you intended it, so that you would agree that your wish was interpreted benevolently, then there is still a problem that we haven't discussed:
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It might not necessarily have to be a very interesting computer simulation to fulfill the wish. That could be a very bad outcome.
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Because the "no unintended consequences" wish comes last, could you unintentionally trap yourself inside a computer simulation as a result of the first wish?
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What if our world is a simulation? Would the "no restrictions" wish be fulfilled if you're granted wishes that have no restrictions within our reality? Or would it have to be also unrestricted in that higher reality of which you are unaware?
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If you want to get dark, the person could die without ever making their wish, having spent a lifetime hammering out the ramifications of the document... so the monkey's paw ultimately succeeds, despite their best efforts.
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Yeah, that's a good point. You might say that allowing Jesus to be crucified on the cross would be benevolent. If even a well-meaning genie could allow that, and the person on the cross could be you, then you're not entirely safe!
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I think you mean "achievable"--right? You can certainly wish for the state of having successfully wished for more wishes, so it's wishable. But it might not be achievable. Is that fair? I imagine that's what you meant when you said "wishable": "something that can be wished into existence"?
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Very true.
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If you're explicit about the specific mechanisms by which additional wishes are gained, then there's no way to certain that there isn't a loophole--some mechanism you didn't think of--that can achieve the infinite-wish result.
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Just as a side note: if the only thing the genie has no power over is death, then "I wish you had magic power over death" would succeed in granting the genie that power. So we can assume there were additional things that the genie could not do, not all of which were mentioned.
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Do you think it's possible to phrase the intent behind this wish in a way that would make it safe?
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There are many other cases where "benevolent" for one group is "detrimental" to another. I hope this helps.
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However, if the genie is sadistic, and *enjoys* causing mortals pain through the subversion of their wishes, then the genie might decide that "benevolent" means "benevolent for the genie" and therefore painful for the human.
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Just to get this out of the way: If the genie interprets your wish as you do, where "benevolent" means "benevolent for you," then you're right and it's a solid wish.