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    9 months ago

    Maybe myself (as an experiment), or the genie about if I should get more wishes or something. Wasting universe-altering magic on convincing one person seems like a waste.

    Edit: To be more clear about the self argument:

    You can do a lot of funny stuff with logical constructs. If you say “exclusively, [wish] or this statement is false” it’s a paradox unless the wish is true. If I argue with someone else, them misunderstanding could count as a victory, but if I’m on both sides that’s a bit harder. It’s possible I just die or explode or something, but maybe it will actually work, too.

    You can get way more sophisticated with that, and probably should if you only get one shot. Godel’s incompleteness theorem is a famous example of that kind of tortured self-reference. Magical evaluation of a single arbitrary statement is just way more OP than it may seem at first.