In the fourth panel the smart genie just says.
“As you wish” and promptly teleports away with his lamp.
Regardless of how you interpret it, 3 wishes are spend and nothing needs to change or happen.
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2026
96 points (97.1% liked)
Comics
1675 readers
1222 users here now
Post your comics here. Single or multi boxed comics.
Please mark nsfw when appropriate.
Same rules as primary server, no hate.
Please warn others if there may be triggers.
Please mark if the comic is yours either in the title or description
obvious ai images will be removed, please include a source to prevent this
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Genie cuts your head off for trifling with them because they are powerful demons and not computers.
One of my favorite examples of a similar kind of self-referential language loop is the following:
This sentence has threee erors.
(Hofstadter)
Oh that's so fucking clever. I kept looking for the third error and after a good 15 seconds it hit me. That's delightful.
This isn't really a paradox.
On panel 3, the genie ignores the first wish, which means the wish in panel 1 never happens. Guy gets 1 wish back, but because he wished for his 3rd wish to not be fulfilled, that wish will do nothing. Genie peaces out because his job here is done.
you dont get wishes back from these djinn. thems the rules
I'm sure they'll make an exception when it works against the person making the wishes.
Ha ha, I have screwed you over and myself in the process making me the victor 😎
Wish 1: grant me the knowledge of how to win land wars in Asia.
are they dumb? why they wasting their wishes like that
This is dumb. There's no reason for the genie to iterate though it in a loop.
Wish one is granted, which simply switches wish two. Wish two is granted (in reverse). Then wish one is ignored, restoring one wish.
If you wish to have a hotdog and then eat it, you were still given a hotdog. The wish was still granted.
Reality BSODs