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Jinnetic Engineering by Richard Stallman
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Author: u/madman-kun *
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Score: 34
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Created: 2016-06-29T12:50:21
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u/ArgentStonecutter [+5] Emergency Mustelid Hologram*
Make the gotcha a consequence of the wish: "Oh, to ensure immunity to viruses... your genetic material is no longer compatible with anyone else's, your biochemistry has been changed to use a different set of nucleic acids in your DNA-equivalent."
u/Kyraimion [+2] *
That would make her infertile, which contradicts the clause that the change "mustn't impair my fertility"
u/ArgentStonecutter [+4] Emergency Mustelid Hologram*
Fertile doesn't have to imply interfertility. As a thought experiment, consider cloning.
u/vallar57 [+1] Unseen University: Faculty of High-Energy Magic*
Yep, the clause should have been "mustn't reduce my fecundity".
u/Nepene [+5] *
Heh. Another pretty good use of wishes, and an amusing attempt to get around the Jinn's restrictions.
u/eaglejarl [+2] *
your wish is supposed to be selfish, so that the aftermath can prove how foolish you were. Where would we jinns be, granting wise and noble wishes I was a little disappointed; this premise was set up to clearly show that this was an evil genie and the main character would need to be clever to get around the downsides, yet that just got dropped. There are any number of ways this could have backfired, yet everything worked out perfectly with little effort.
u/ajuc [+2] *
These 3 wishes will kill millions of people. Everybody becomes superintelligent, but they aren't yet immune to diseases. Some of them are bound to be terrorists/madman. A new virus is created by someone that kills all Jews/Muslims/Homosexuals/Black/White/Slavs/Roma/whatever people. Whole countries die off. Nuclear and conventional wars start. The only survivors are people already insuspectible to sickness and lucky enough to survive the wars.
u/RMcD94 [+1] *
It's gonna suck when the heat death of the universe comes around or if anyone actually wants to die for whatever reason. Or when transhumanism happens.