Eh I guess I should make it so that everything is granted or ungranted at once so that you can't feel out the limit like that.
The whole point of this thought experiment is to ask a person about the problems in their lives that they don't know any way to solve on their own.
if I ask for multiple things, is it possible that the genie will grant a subset of the things? or is it all or nothing?
It's intended to be all or nothing. That way the number of wishes doesn't get really inflated unless the person genuinely needs a lot of things out of their control to go right.
okay, now that I understand the parameters, I can think about what I would ask
is it easier for the genie to do things that would help other people, if it doesn't directly influence my life?
Absolutely, but mostly if it's people you don't care a whole lot about helping anyway. If you have a very selfless personality and care more about helping others than helping yourself then helping yourself would be the easier wish in this case.
then I wish for $1 trillion in gold to be discovered in Africa
Congratulations. I bet you're pretty jealous of me tho. I wished for a BLT sandwich.
was your wish granted?
Yeah, I think it was pretty close tho. I fuckin' love sandwiches.
I was hoping to trick the genie by crashing the gold market and pumping my bags of bitcoins
