A genie appears. What do you wish for?

Not having to work to be able to live.

I love to work, to develop new stuff etc... But the pressure of being required to make some profit so I can pay rent, food, water, heat, etc... just takes almost all the fun out of it. If we could live in some utopia where every fundamental needs would be fulfilled, I am 100% certain my procrastination and my anxiety would just go away.

In my previous life I was the ultimate creator: there was nothing I couldn't do, no problem I couldn't solve, no goal I couldn't accomplish. I had everything you could possibly imagine. Power, influence, money. But, like with all things, after a while I got bored.

While contemplating my life and sad existence, a genie appeared and granted me one wish. "Everything that can be done, has been done. There's nothing for me to create." I said.

The genie replied "You need a challenge".

"I've met all challenges and conquered them. I don't think that will help".

"Well, then. I'll give you the ultimate challenge" the genie pronounced.

With renewed excitement, I accepted it as my wish.

The genie clapped their hands and I found myself in my new life.

This new life is the one I've always known and remembered. My old life is just a dream, barely a memory.

My new life is much more exciting. There are an infinite number of challenges waiting for me.

I'd ask for advertising to be banned. The Internet and tech in general would become so much better as a result.

If we constrain ourselves to physically/biologically plausible stuff rather than the ability to teleport or whatever, and maybe assume you can't interfere with the lives of others:

1) Perfect health for the duration of my life (e.g., no insomnia, no autoimmune bs, no mental health issues, etc.).

2) Probably all the benefits and none of the downsides of that pill from the Limitless movie/book/TV show. Perfect memory and superhuman learning ability would be fucking amazing. (I would also be happy with just Jon von Neumann's brain.)

3) The third wishes that come to mind are too personal for me to put online, so maybe just being able to be completely rejuvenated with just 4 hours of sleep so there's more time in the day to put to use doing good with my world-class genius granted to me by (2).

I wish for either a proof that ECDLP (Elliptic Curve Discrete Log) is in BPP (Bounded Error Polynomial Time) or a proof that it isn't. But I'd also accept the genie's statement that neither is provable in ZFC...

I would wish to be granted the ability to have any number of wishes granted just by thinking about them, without the poor user experience of having to make genie appear first and to speak the wishes.

For instance, suppose I'm on a freeway and the car has lost control and crossed a divider into opposite traffic. I'd like to be able to have my life-saving wish executed in milliseconds (like please don't hit that obstruction/car), which is currently not possible with the high latency user interface of the genie.

- World peace, us combatting climate change together, resolve global [social, economical] injustice

- Being able to do or work on what I want without it having to be about money and employment

- Being content, most of the time. Constant happiness is utopian, but if I can just be content with what I have, what I do and what I experience, that would be great

- Less mental fog and unfocusedness (not sure if that is an existing word)

Overall I just wish that every human on earth gets the chance to feel good about themselves and where they are in life.

Omnipotence, but in such a way that achieving what I desire will always be an interesting but not frustrating surmountable challenge.

Wishing for anything less than omnipotence is suboptimal, there's always more you could wish for otherwise. If you want to do good, even if you wish for world peace & a cure to world hunger & cures for all disease... you'll still have general human suffering. And depending on the type of genie directly wishing for such things might just mean the genie eliminates the world! If you want to maximize the good you do, you have to be able to correct for any unintended consequences (or first wish to be able to know and understand all the consequences and weigh all possible choices).

Wishing for garden-variety omnipotence would be boring. Of course you can alter yourself to make it non-boring, and with my version of the wish I could certainly remove the challenge afterwards, but I'd that makes the wish itself less fun.

Time. I can work and try to figure out how to make more of whatever else I want, but there are hard biological limits on how long I can last at a sufficiently high quality of existence to be worth doing anything else. I don't want immortality and the eventual infinite boredom of experiencing the heat death of the universe, but give me the duration of humanity's existence. I want to see everything we ever do.

Caveat that I'd have to think long and hard about the terms of this and confer with other wishers on how trustworthy this genie is. I don't want to degrade to the point I can't move a single joint yet stay alive, or spend 700 million years encased in concrete or trapped at the ocean floor or whatever other horrible crap a malicious genie might come up with. So I need to figure out some way to word it in terms of not aging or suffering injury. Perfect resilience, but I still want the ability to die by choice.

I'd like to be able to detect the truth in any formal statement. When I'm watching a youtube video and the presenter says "80% of the mass in the universe is made up of dark matter" I'd like the be able to know if that's true or false. This would be for everything I read or hear, from anyone, all the time.

Off the top of my head, $5 million USD tax-free. I’d never do a damn thing again and never worry about money again.

First, I would wish for access to unlimited wishes in the future. Then, I would reflect on what to use those for.

Happiness.

Whatever you wish for is rarely what makes you happy. Rich people have same-ish issues with depression as the rest, even though you'd think they can have all their wishes fulfilled.

We have the tendency to see the next thing we want, and to think "ahh, then I'll be happy. Just that one more thing". Then we get it and hours/weeks/months later we think, "really, that thing?".

Happiness probably doesn't look like what I imagine. Maybe it's hard work, but just so fulfilling? Maybe it's harm to me, which brings me to a whole different path of life? Or hell, maybe it's just a wad of cash, but at least I know it will make me happy.

I would wish for true love.

To have more time to experience more of the world, learn new skills, spend time with friends and family, start (and finish!) more side projects, etc.

I'm not entirely sure how 'more time' would be accomplished. It could be living longer, not requiring sleep, not needing a salary to pay for basic needs (which would free up existing time).

For a basic living wage to magically appear in my account every month. Basically kinda like UBI, I guess, lol.

It would be nice to not have worry so much and work so hard to just pay rent and cover basic expenses.

I've been doing this for (what seems like) a long time and I'm really kinda burnt out at the moment.

1. I’ll ask the genie about the nature of our reality, how big is the universe, how did we reach here, is anyone else out there ?

2. I would wish for technology the technology to move intergalactic distances in reasonable amount of time. This will help our species advance to next level.

An orange for a head.

To fulfil a classic anti-joke.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vx9bDegjn75KrpNTn/the-orange...

I would wish for " ... all of Suleiman-bin-Daoud’s Palace and this garden here to immediately vanish in a clap of thunder.", for that would be wishing without showing off, and maybe I won't get bit that way.

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The invention and implementation of a significantly more efficient and effective form of government that prioritizes the happiness of people.

Universal sentient rights including the UN's list, healthcare, education, food, shelter, and solid internet devices and connections.

You should read “The Man Who Could Work Miracles”, a short story from H. G. Wells’ “Tales of Space and Time”.

A cure for cancer. That's something no amount of money can currently buy.

I wish to have all the powers of the genie without any of the limitations.

Fix my teeth, eyes, back pain, weird moles… make me healthy forever :)

Enough intelligence to solve any kind of problem eventually.

For the mass of an electron to be 1% larger.

A blessed, fixed, silver dragon scale mail.

Self administered euthanasia

46 billion dollars

https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2740#comi...

Perfect health to everyone on the planet. The ability to reincarnate with my past lives memories. The end of capitalism and the success of the concepts related to the solarpunk aesthetic.

an infinite number of more wishes.