The Logical Paradox That Broke The Genie

The Logical Paradox That Broke The Genie
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Oh, the classic logical paradox strikes again! This person just crashed the genie's operating system with a self-referential loop. First, they ask the genie to do the opposite of their next wish. Then they wish for the genie not to fulfill their third wish. Finally, they ask the genie to ignore their first wish.

This creates the perfect logical contradiction: If the genie ignores the first wish (as requested in the third wish), then it must fulfill the second wish (don't fulfill wish #3). But if it doesn't fulfill wish #3, then it must follow wish #1 (do opposite of next wish), which means it must fulfill wish #3 (since the opposite of "don't fulfill" is "fulfill").

And boom! The genie.exe has stopped working. It's basically the programmer equivalent of dividing by zero or creating an infinite recursion without a base case. The stack overflow was inevitable!

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