The problem with every "would you press a button to achieve X outcome at Y cost" scenario is that unless you have a clear explanation of why that cost is necessary your default assumption should be that some powerful being is fucking with you and you shouldn't play its game.
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Take it from me as a wish granting trickster god that if I'm making you make a hard choice the intuitively appealling option is going to have some serious monkey paw style wish granting attached to it.
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I'm not saying you can't trust genies. I am saying that anyone who can achieve amazing outcomes at the push of a button needs a pretty fucking compelling argument as to why they're extracting a terrible price for doing so and asking you to make that choice.
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Also need a compelling argument for why they’re still stuck in that lamp https://twitter.com/lisatomic5/status/1288221836782661632?s=21 …https://twitter.com/lisatomic5/status/1288221836782661632 …
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I'm trying to figure out how to delicately point out why this made me go "yikes" and I can't really come up with anything less blunt than observing that "If this slave were good one of their masters would have freed them" has some issues.
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Haha, ok yes good point, and I’ll update! Maybe watching Aladdin as a kid had me overestimating the probability that people use wishes to free non-malicious-trickster genies... In the future I’ll just object to all wish granting scenarios on the basis of it being slave labor :)
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I mean it depends on the scenario but yeah the classic genie in a bottle scenario is very much mystical slave labour
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