Well if the counter doesn’t reset (because the genie exists outside of time and therefore grants all the wishes “simultaneously” from its own perspective) we definitely get a problem, because granting 3 makes it impossible for 3 to be granted, and we get the paradox implied by the comic
Do the opposite of next
Do not grant 3
Ignore 1
If you grant 1 and 2, then you cannot grant 3 (since 3 implies not granting 1). If you grant 3, then 2 cannot be granted (since it implies not granting 3). This is the simple form of the paradox.
But you said the counter didn’t reset? If it grants 2 in the “second loop”, that implies 1 was granted (since we didn’t invert 2), but you can’t grant 2 (uninverted) and also grant 1.
If you’re operating with a time-loop recursion, you run into the problem of my initial comment. If you try to grant all three wishes simultaneously, you run into the obvious contradiction. The only way you get out is if you allow a time-loop recursion, but for some reason count the ignored guess as a granted guess in the inner loop(s).
again that’s two loops and a successful exit.
Start loop 2
all wishes fulfilled, genie.exe concludes
Wouldn’t going through two loops require the genie to grant more than three wishes?
i think the funny part is he has only to consider it, and by granting no wishes he grants them all
Yup, I remember working through it the first time I saw this comic and there’s no paradox here.
You could argue that there is though, since the genie will grant three wishes. In that case, it operates like
granted_wishes = 0 while granted_wishes < 3: wish = receive_wish() granted = grant_wish(wish) # True if wish is granted, false otherwise (invalid wish etc) if granted: granted_wishes += 1So we get
granted_wishes = 1granted_wishes = 2-inner loop-
granted_wishes = 0granted_wishes = 1-inner loop 2-
granted_wishes = 0granted_wishes = 1… etc.
We get an infinite time-loop recursion, because we never reach the third guess in the inner loops.
Silly human. Genies exist outside of time. So the counter doesn’t reset.
Well if the counter doesn’t reset (because the genie exists outside of time and therefore grants all the wishes “simultaneously” from its own perspective) we definitely get a problem, because granting 3 makes it impossible for 3 to be granted, and we get the paradox implied by the comic
If you grant 1 and 2, then you cannot grant 3 (since 3 implies not granting 1). If you grant 3, then 2 cannot be granted (since it implies not granting 3). This is the simple form of the paradox.
Correct. The genie grants 1, 2, and 2 in the second loop.
But you said the counter didn’t reset? If it grants 2 in the “second loop”, that implies 1 was granted (since we didn’t invert 2), but you can’t grant 2 (uninverted) and also grant 1.
If you’re operating with a time-loop recursion, you run into the problem of my initial comment. If you try to grant all three wishes simultaneously, you run into the obvious contradiction. The only way you get out is if you allow a time-loop recursion, but for some reason count the ignored guess as a granted guess in the inner loop(s).
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Silly time, counters exist inside genies. So the human doesn’t reset.
For some reason it feels like there’s one though
I think that it is more that they need to be conditionally applied simultaneously, but are contradictory conditions that cannot be met.
the point of the genie is that he gets to intuit the unsuplied terms