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[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 142 points 6 months ago

I like the idea that genies aren't obligated to serve you and if your wish is bullshit, they just kill you.

[-] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 19 points 6 months ago

Supposedly they are malevolent spirits that sometimes may grant wishes as a reward, not by some compulsion.

[-] AEsheron@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Depends on the story, and IIRC it has shifted with time. But yeah, the general trope is they are stuck in a small vessel, and they offer/are extorted into one or more wishes to free them. Why they are stuck ranges from evil sorcerer trying to enslave them to noble hero stopping their rampage.

[-] WraithGear@lemmy.world 68 points 6 months ago

It loops once and then quits at the second wish.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I don't see any conflict. Do opposite of next wish = fulfill third wish. Ignore first wish = don't fulfill third wish. Done.

[-] De_Narm@lemmy.world 48 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

He had his three wishes and none of them actually do anything. It doesn't matter if they make any sense or which ones would be executed. The Genie can just go back into his lamp and chill.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago

Tbf he could have just not asked for the wishes

[-] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 33 points 6 months ago

The first wish was already fulfilled when the third was given, so ignoring it doesn't really change anything

[-] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago

Umm… ignore doesn’t mean undo.

[-] Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Time is not a flat circle. It is linear

[-] bitcrafter@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

Wrong--it's a cube!

[-] GnomeKat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 6 months ago

As the wishes had no side effects the optimizer was free to remove them. Wishes granted.

[-] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

My first wish, gimme a forth wish

-genie=no

Ok sudo gimme a forth wish

-genie=fuck hes got me there

[-] Eylrid@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

You've used two wishes, what are your last two wishes?

[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago

"I wish I knew the difference between fourth and forth"

"I wish I had 5 wishes"

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

πŸ§žβ€β™‚οΈ Here's your forth book

[-] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 17 points 6 months ago

He could have created a paradox using just two wishes and used his first wish for something actually useful.

[-] Kacarott@feddit.de 3 points 6 months ago

Why not just one, like "I wish this wish were a paradox" or something

[-] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

When you push your shitty genie code to prod

[-] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 months ago

Genie hasn't responded for 30 seconds. Would you like to kill it?

[-] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

πŸ”ͺ πŸ§žβ€β™‚οΈ

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago

Why is it 30 in Windows? xfwm has sane 5 seconds.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

It is quicker now in Windows, at least if you're trying to interact with the program. It might take 30 seconds for the message queue to fill up without any user input, but I've had it pop up asking me if I wanted to kill a game that was doing some loading in it's UI thread and neglecting the message queue when the total loading time was maybe like 20 seconds and I was clicking to see if it was hung. After understanding that it just takes a while and waiting patiently, the "should I kill it?" message doesn't pop up.

[-] RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 13 points 6 months ago

At first I thought he was trying to jailbreak the genie so he could ask it to do bad things.

[-] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago
[-] pkill@programming.dev 0 points 6 months ago

what did the proprietary LLMs do to people...

[-] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

None of those are wishes.

[-] AaronMaria@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 months ago

Shouldn't the genie have a null pointer exception immediately?

[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

This kills the genie

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 4 points 6 months ago

1st cycle:

  1. βœ“
  2. fulfil 3rd wish
  3. βœ“ in accordance with 2nd wish

2nd cycle:

  1. 🚫 in accordance with 3rd wish of 1st cycle
  2. βœ“
  3. 🚫 in accordance with 2nd wish

repeat

tbh: IT is missing an "ignore" character.

this post was submitted on 07 May 2024
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