A Forum Game To Pass The Time! (Corrupt A Wish)

[Someone Else 37]

Granted. Your hard drive decides o format itself before you get a chance to put it on Youtube.

I wish that my next wish would be granted.

 

[Shakie666]

Granted, but your next wish is "I wish that my previous wish won't be granted", creating a wish paradox that causes the universe to implode.

I wish there was somewhere outside the USA that does a good steak.

 

[Someone Else 37]

Granted. You, however, don't live there.

Granted, but your next wish is "I wish that my previous wish won't be granted", creating a wish paradox that causes the universe to implode.

How did you know?

I wish for a Godel-Escher-Bach-style typeless wish.

 

[Eruantien]

Granted, but an unforeseen paradox occurs that causes it to be not granted, due to /dev/null reasons and whatnot.

I wish for my laptop battery to last longer so I can watch animez for longer at night.

 

[null123]

Granted, your laptop battery will physically endure untill the end of time. However, this means it will no longer be able to hold any charge whatsoever.

I wish for a wish.

 

[ljfa]

Granted, but it will not actually be fulfilled.

I wish upon a star

 

[Eruantien]

Granted, but ♫ it's up to you ♫ .

I wish for a wormhole.

 

[Someone Else 37]

Granted. The wormhole leads to a point about five meters north of where you enter it.

I wish that all the wishes in this thread would be granted.

 

[Shakie666]

Goddammit, this is the second time I've been ninja'd and had to write out a whole new post

Granted, but there's so many different wishes they all mix together into a boring shade of brown.

I wish for this (the actual thing, not the picture):

 

[Someone Else 37]

Granted. It tramples your house.

I wish that all the wishes in this thread that don't create paradoxes would be granted.

 

[Shakie666]

Granted, unfortunately the set of wishes that create paradoxes is not well-defined, since removing some of them for creating paradoxes leads to the creation of others when they are removed.

I wish I wasn't so indecisive (its why I had to write out my last post three times).

 

[Eruantien]

Granted. Wait. Is that a paradox?

I wish for a dumpling.

Granted. The wormhole leads to a point about five meters north of where you enter it.

I wish that all the wishes in this thread would be granted.

I'm stuck in a wall...

 

[Shakie666]

Granted, unfortunately its stuck outside the wall.

Since no-one's corrupted my last wish yet, I'll let them do that instead of think of another one.

(I think, I assume Eruantien's post was in response to Someone Else 37)

 

[Eruantien]

Granted, unfortunately its stuck outside the wall.

Since no-one's corrupted my last wish yet, I'll let them do that instead of think of another one.

(I think, I assume Eruantien's post was in response to Someone Else 37)

Actually, you ninja'd me. Just assume that the first part of my response is in response to you, and the second part was a note to someone else. Tally ho!

 

[Shakie666]

Oh, well in that case, I wish that someone would find a non-trivial zero of the riemann zeta function that doesn't have real part 1/2.

 

[Someone Else 37]

Granted. I just divided by zero, so now all numbers, including 1/2 and all of the zeroes of all functions are equal to zero, and therefore each other.

I wish you all would look up Russell's Paradox, because my previous wish is (was intended to be, at least) an example of it. If it doesn't create a paradox, it would have to be granted, which is as paradoxical as "I wish this wish be granted". So then, since that's a paradox (sort of), the wish for granting non-paradoxical wishes would not cause itself to be granted- so now it's not a paradox.

 

[Shakie666]

Granted, but the wikipedia servers are overloaded as everyone tries to look up Russell's paradox simultaneously.

I wish someone would find the smallest number that cannot be described by a sentence in the english language containing fewer than twenty words.

(I find an alternate version, the barber paradox, to be easier to follow for the uninitiated than Russell's original. In a village somewhere there is a barber who shaves everyone who doesn't shave themselves, and no-one else. So who shaves the barber? It can't be himself since he only shaves people who don't shave themselves. But if someone else shaves him, then he doesn't shave himself... except we're told he shaves all such people, so he does shave himself).

 

[Someone Else 37]

Your wish cannot be granted, as all possible contenders can be described as "that number is really big."

I wish American English used a more sensible way of naming large numbers than the million, billion, trillion = 10^6, 10^9, 10^12 system that it does.
(The British 10^6, 10^12, 10^18 is better, although Knuth's "name the power of two powers of ten" thing would be better still.)

(Also, it's hard to rephrase the barber's paradox in such a way that it deals with granting wishes. I tried.)

 

[Shakie666]

No, the whole point is that the number has to be defined explicitly in that sentence, no ambiguity allowed (not sure if you noticed, but its a reference to another paradox).

 

[Someone Else 37]

One trillion, one hundred one billion, one hundred twenty-one million, one hundred twenty-one thousand, one hundred twenty-one. I think. Something like that. At least, if you count "twenty-one" as two separate words.

Or are you going to say "Ok, that number is A. Try again."?