You find you can no longer lie.
But can you still be incorrect?
No, because you are always right.
Massive silver lining then. Having found a way to determine objective truth sounds pretty powerful and useful, even if it’s not what you originally wished for.
My mouth letting me say “I’m always right but I’m still a massive idiot” is going to hit me like a brick
Or whatever they say is right instead. Atomics are fake? No nuclear power. Oops there goes the sun because fissions gone.
Seems out of the scope of power for a genie, but I don’t know how to scale mythical creatures
Let’s just hope a flatearther doesn’t get it.
Can you imagine? A modern day oracle. Scientists would be lining up to ask questions about how the world worked and everything you said would be true.
It would be great for just confirming things that science suspected were true. Like, all the rare particles they’re trying to find with the Large Hadron Collider. They could just ask the oracle and learn all the particles they were missing, along with all the important data about them.
Best of all, if you couldn’t lie, and couldn’t be wrong (even if you didn’t know the answer) it could be used to “discover” things without ever having to go down blind alleys, or waste time with research that won’t bear fruit. For example, you could ask “is it possible for something like a spaceship to move faster than the speed of light?” If the answer is no, then you can write off working on that forever. If it’s yes, you could progressively ask questions to learn the theory you’d need to know to build a FTL ship. It could also finally put to bed whether time travel is possible, and how the paradoxes involved are resolved.
If FTL travel is possible, you could just ask the oracle where all the various aliens are, making it really easy to contact them (plus the oracle can tell you if it’s unsafe to contact them).
Also, since it was obviously possible to transform someone into an oracle, it should be possible to do that again. You can just ask the oracle the right questions needed to create a second, third, tenth, 1000th oracle. That way the one oracle isn’t always so busy, and if the first oracle dies, there are still many more.
Predicting lottery numbers, proving mathematic formula, coming up with options with for ftl and cold fusion if there are any
Always being right without knowledge on your end could lead humanity forward a lot if you can prove your standing
Predicting lottery numbers, proving mathematic formula, coming up with options with for ftl and cold fusion if there are any
Most of these assume that the power will correct what you are thinking/going to say rather than preventing you from thinking /saying it. It’s still busted, but in its weakest form you want to be using it to make choices/giving advice.
You might only be speaking in math, though.
Learning good search algorithms will be your friend.
So, if I lie down, will I fly? Antigravity style?
You attempt to do this, but you find yourself unable to say you have three wishes, as that would make you wrong.
And you will always be right.
I read this in Baldur’s gate narrator’s voice
You must gather your party before venturing forth.
I read it in “the Stanly parable” voice
I remember playing Baldur’s gate on the GameCube but I forget what that sounded like.
honestly, not a bad power.
“next week lottery numbers are _______”
“The best thing I can do with my life right now is ___________”
“next week lottery numbers are… impossible for me to know”
“the best thing I can do with my life right now is … something I wish I knew”
The curse can be stubbornly unhelpful no matter what.
It won’t be easy as you’ll still have to guess the right thing, but you can probably make it work.
Only have to guess 10 times the number of digits though, quite doable for a lottery win!
Your poorly optimizing. With a linear search, you only need 9 per digit, a binary search will get it all done in like 4 or 5 guesses
I like your thinking, but a binary search would require us to know whether our guess is too high or low, no?
Batman
Username checks out. I’d expect nothing less from the DC world’s greatest detective.
but whatever I guess will be right.
No, no, no. You’ll be blocked when you try to guess the wrong thing. You still have to try guessing on your won.
still not hard, the first number is [strained noise],[strained noise],[strained noise],[strained noise],4.
FOUR
The lottery numbers haven’t been picked yet, so nothing would be correct until they get picked.
“If I wish for three more wishes, you will grant them with no catches.”
Keep doing this, over and over again, trying different strategies. It’s a way to test and validate genie loopholes (as you will be unable to state that if it’s wrong).
Though if the genie was smart, being “wrong” would be qualified to your own internal knowledge, I suppose. E.g. you can’t knowingly lie.
Monkey’s paw genie: you physically can’t verbalize that you have 3 wishes left when you only have 2.
I have 4
Most monkeys paw answer are “granted, X bad thing happens” “real” monkeys paw would grant it in some twisted way
Your IQ drops 80 points while deep seated feelings of racism bloom in your soul. A Red hat appears on your head. The Genie says “Now you are always right”. You immediately turn your self into ICE since you are an immigrant. The monkeys paw has struck again
The left side of his body disappears and he falls over dead
Granted, the genie produces a large sword and slices you perfectly down the middle. The left half of you burns away to dust. “You are now… always right,” he says to your right half as you flop to the ground. Not that it matters much as your consciousness quickly fades.
After the wish a maga hat appears
I’ve never understood how people go straight to “wishing for more wishes” and then immediately give up when the genie tells them no.
An individual wish is not by default limited by anything meaningful. One wish can easily be worth thousands of other lesser wishes. All you’d have to do is wish for the ability to grant yourself wishes. Or write up a “contract” or something and simply request that the thing you wrote was true, and that contract could have any number of things written on it. You could even go heavy on rules lawyering to get around “monkey’s paw” risks when you write it all up.
Its ultimately just a restriction of language. If you wanted to wish for a boat, you wouldn’t wish for each individual component and manufacturing process of a boat in extreme detail, you’d just ask for a boat. You can do that with any arbitrarily defined thing of your choice that you yourself define.
A fine career as a lawyer awaits you
What if that meant that you could no longer lie?
That genie looks like it’s 5 minutes away from a cardiac arrest
You can always be right without ever being correct.
Point goes to genie on this one. You’re gonna get a cursed wish and need to use another wish to undo it. Way to fuck it up, Chippy, you’ll be lucky if you stay alive long enough to fix this.
Rub a lamp
Genie comes out
Oooh, that felt good. Keep going and I’ll give you three full wishes.
Shrug
Keep rubbing lamp
Ooooh yeah baby. Give me your wishes. What are your wishes? You’re going to get so many good wishes, hon.
That’s some galaxy-brain loophole logic right there 😂
I feel like the proper response by the genie should be “yes, you’re right, what’s your first wish?”
The worst verision of this I think is just never being able to lie or soften your words to not hurt people’s feelings or offend them, so you are just always incredibly blunt and brutally honest.
