1. Infinite source of money
2. Anything I want when I want
3. A better life

Infinite money would make all money useless... inflation states that. Would be detrimental to your own well-being as well as everybody else's.

Anything you want when you want it is playing on the whole wishing for more wishes witch is forbidden under the pretext of this scenario.

And lastly, what constitutes a better life for you? Simply stating "a better life" could be anything as small as having an extra dollar... you'd be better off then without it... but I'm sure it wouldn't be enough. SO how would you define a better life?

Wish 1. How about come into mass wealth (has a limit)

Wish 2. Eternal health (immune to sickness and disease)

Wish 3. Mainlly, may life is spiraling down the drain and I want a fresh start.

SO basically making yourself wealthy beyond what you could possibly be able to spend but enough not to tip the scale of inflation thus still keeping the world market in check. That works.

Eternal health... would make you immune to illness and disease... but is the process of aging ( and ensuing death by old age ) a disease or a natural accoruance that wouldn't be encompassed by this wish?

And lastly you would want a fresh start... as in begin a new life ? Be somebody else somewhere else? And given the order in witch you made them... wouldn't you just loose the effects of the first 2 wishes by wishing to be somebody else at the last spot?

Wish 2. I guess immortality would be welcomed

Wish 3. Nah, keep the life I have now, just have my future improved

AH yes, now we come to immortality... but I am unsure on weather wishing for immortality for yourself alone would be very good for you in the long run... guess it depends what kind of immortality you had in mind... is it the kind of immortality where you simply don't die of old age ( basically preventing degeneration on your body at a cellular level ) but can still die of hunger or getting killed by others or by yourself... OR is it the kind of immortality where you simply cannot die no matter what?

Immortal, but can die from starvation or killed

Well that fixes the pothole that is being unable to die when everybody else would... and in the event of global extinction you'd join them and not be stuck alone for the rest of existence... It is a less dangerous wish but still one that comes with it's price... if you alone are immortal and everybody else around you ages and dies... in the long run... you will never be able to truly have meaningful relationships with pother people knowing they will just wither and die in what will be just a fraction of your own existence... Would it truly be worth it?

Then I will change my third wish to having my true love, whomever she'll be, share the same immortality with me when I meet her

Well technically you already wished for it... would you be willing to live with those consequences? You could use a wish to undo a previous wish... but do you have any wishes left?

I'm just curious what kind of wishes people would make given such power and weather they thought of the consequences their actions would have. I'm not here to make you take the right wish. Your wishes are yours to choose. Just curious if people thought them through.

1. Puerto Rican independence
2. Puerto Rican will for national union
3. Puerto Rican government decency

Interesting suggestions. A wish for the betterment of a group of people rather then the betterment of a single person. Though with being able to wish for anything and only wishing for the betterment of a select group of people still seems a bit selfish, though defenetly a lot more noble then what I was expecting most of these answers here to be. ( I mean no offense to your statement of course, just speaking my mind ).

Now, combining these changes for the betterment of Puerto Rico is likely to translate into a dominant position for us in the Caribbean in the world, thus bringing benefit to other places in the forms of trade and international cooperation.

But again, it's only benefiting SOME people... I'm curious, since you had the power to make everybody's lives better somehow but you chose to just make a select few people's lives better, ( if we assume that the changes you suggested would ultimately lead to a general improvement in the lives of the people affected... basically that they couldn't backfire in any way ).

I mean don't get me wrong they are valid wishes, I'm not commenting here on the fact that they might be right or wrong. I'm just musing on weather it was the moral thing to do ( since you seem to have went with a more moral wish system then I had expected ).

One thing to consider is my nationalistic approach--Puerto Rico has been a colony/dependency for more than 500 years (390 under Spain, 114 under the USA by Aug 12 2012), and the opression, limitations and opportunity deprivation experienced throughout the process are my justification for the choice of wishes.

I'd go live there in a heartbeat if Puerto Rico finally has a chance to grow to her full potential. I fell in love with that island and the general culture (not to mention the FOOD OHMAYGGGDROOL) from the first time I ever set foot there!

In the meantime, please come visit whenever you can! And thank you for your support for our independence.

Haha I'll be sure to do that whenever I get the chance. I should probably start learning some Spanish first though >_>
Or Boricua for that matter. I can't speak or write any of that at all. XD

Puerto Rican Spanish is one of the various dialects of the Spanish language--do consider though that many Puerto Ricans may overwhelm you trying to talk English (depends on the area as well), even if the vast majority of Puerto Ricans don't have a mastery of English. Maybe we can come in contact to further continue this discussion and other stuff. You may check my userpage to find my e-mails and IM contact info; otherwise PMs could be used.

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El español puertorriqueño es uno de los varios dialectos del lenguaje español--ahora, debes considerar que muchos puertorriqueños pudieran abrumar tratando de hablarte inglés (aunque depende de a dónde vayas acá), aún si la mayoría de los puertorriqueños no tienen dominio amplio del inglés. Si quieres, podemos ponernos en contacto pa' continuar esta discusión u otras. Puedes revisar mi página de usuario pa' buscar mis e-mails e información de contacto para mensajes instantáneos; de otro modo podemos usar los mensajes privados.

Not to snub your wishes, but I was under the impression that Puerto Rico wanted statehood.

The situation with Puerto Rico is that due to the historic repression against the independence movement, many are now against independence due to a dependentist mindset (this extends also to those who want US statehood, often due to dependence reasons rather than feeling American).

For now I'd say the current status opinions (outside of the electoral participation) are:

- US statehood at ca. 45%
- Current (colonial status) at ca. 30%
- Independence at ca. 20%
- Free Association (independence with political union--current status of Palau relative to the USA) at ca. 5%

Even if the US statehood were to have an inordinate majority (67% or more), the decision is not ultimately that of Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico; it would also require the approval of the US states. This I don't see likely to happen due to the xenophobic situation against hispanics that the rest of Americans have, as well as Puerto Rican politics likely being too liberal and justifying a big chunk of representation (thus the conservatives and the smaller US states are likely to object).

Finally, there's the part of there being a national identity of our own (this is defining 'nation' according to its sociological meaning, not as synonym of "sovereign State").

Ah, I see.

I'd indulge in immortality, then be more philanthropic for at least one of the other two. Though I would really need to think about what that would be - you have to be carefully. Wishing for world peace would mean getting rid of free will. Wishing for widespread happiness would make everyone zombies, and wishing to forever stop famine and disease would fundamentally change the way the universe works. Mmmm... It's a dangerous power to have.

Would it not be wise then to use one of those wishes to temporarily give you the intelligence, wisdom and insight to better formulate your remaining wishes so that they don't backfire on you?

Also... immortality seems nice and good... but I wonder if it would truly be worth it... given that our world might end... and we might still be stuck on this rock when it does... if that happens, everybody dies, or sun burns out and you're still stuck here unable to die and be forever alone in the vastness of space with no means to get around... and no means to end your immortality... would that really be a good thing?

I meant immortal in the tolkien sense- not subject to ageing or decay or disease. Not invincibility. However, it still wouldn't be as bad as you say. After the heat death your brain would freeze and youd enter an eternal slumber. However getting to that point would drive you insane.

And maybe on the intelligence suggestion. However, what's to say wisdom and intelligence would lead to the right decision? A wise intelligent nazi would probably still fick things up. It depends on your own morals and wether they are flawed or not, as much as wisdom and intellegence. I know I've consistently misspelled that but autocorrect is useless. I apologise.

this topic wasn't meant to get people to make good or bad wishes... what you wish for is yours to decide... if you wish for everybody in the world do die... it's your wish... it's a terrible wish but it's valid under the laws I made. What I'm trying to see here is what people might DO with such power and no limitations on what they could do with it but their own internal moral compass.

Like you said just having intelligence, wisdom and insight might not result in a good wish... but that's not the point. The point is to give you the means with witch to formulate your wish so that it gives you what you desire... regardless weather that desire is being a dragon or exterminating an entire race of people.

No, I know that, but the conversation was driven down that path - i said I'd want to do something philanthropic, you suggested wishing for the intelligence to make a good decision, and I said that it was a good idea, but it wouldn't necessarily result in the best decision. I want to make a good wish - So from that end, it is the point.
I view morality as being subjective, so even though I consider myself moral, I am hesitant to impede on other's morals and values, so long as they aren't hurting others. In short, I honestly don't know what I'd wish for. Once I was immortal, I guess I'd have as long as I wanted to decide.

It's a good discussion concept :). Are you going to indulge us on what you's wish for?

YOu desire to do something good with your wish but doubt weather the insight intelligence and wisdom would be enough to make a good wish... well nothing else can tell you what a good or bad wish is... good and evil are terms we each define ourselves ( though most people simply accept what good and evil is based on what they are thought ).

Not harming other people ( might want to extend that to living beings or the world as a whole ) is a good enough start in the direction to making a good wish.

But would you imply then that if you were given intelligence insight and wisdom it might change your way of thinking? change your moral compass? It might if you suddenly got to see the larger picture... see reality from another angle that you can't from this point? Could lead to something that seems like a very evil an bad wish you make now could end up being a good one in the larger scheme of existence... and viceversa with some apparently good wish you make on a smaller scale to have a bad overall effect.

Truly this opens up the door to so many possibilities that it's hard to fathom what you'd wish for... but if you are deadset on making a specific wish and not wanting it to blow up in your face because you formulated it wrongly at least these abilities would give you the chance to formulate it so that the end result will be according to your desire... weather that desire is ultimately a good or bad one... that remains to be seen. But I doubt you can just wish to be told what a good wish would be as that would be highly subjective...

Also, I actually share your later statement on this topic now... I honestly wouldn't know hat to wish for... The scale and power that would be given to you would kind of scare me... I don't think I'd be able to wish for anything... not right away anyways...

The intelligence argument you are explaining is valid, but my main apprehension to it is that the subject of my wish will have more to do with my moral compass than an inability to fully think it through. I mean, sure, it would be beneficial to have such an intelligence, but you have to invest a wish doing it. I only have two left, so I would essentially only get one wish. However, if I can sit down and think of two good wishes with the intelligence I have, then that would be potentially a better investment.

I guess a second wish would be some variant of everyone getting a reasonable chance to succeed and be content in life. Not that everyone would be equal and exactly the same... but just have a similar opportunity to succeed or fail, like everyone rich and successful, or even just content, has had. I would need to word it properly though, of course. But I guess that's the sentiment.

Though, of course, the more I think about it, the less relevant this all becomes. If I were actually in a universe where wishes can be granted, then that requires a universe which is completely different to the universe I am speculating in now. If magic exists... which it would have to, in order for such wishes to be granted... then that changes everything that I would want to wish for.

I suppose the premeis for this scenario entitled that you'd need to suspend your disbelief and simply accept that for the duration of your 3 wish making, magic would simply exist and you wouldn't need to wonder why or how... How the wishes you make during that would effect the world... if changing the laws of physics by making say magic possible would break reality as we know it or have some unforeseen consequences that we cannot even fathom... that's another thing and one of the inherent risks of this scenario.

I would wish for Everyone to have the body they truly desired
A company based around bringing back people who were Devoured and editing of body structure (think borderlands "New You" Stations)
And Ill save the third wish to fix any issues I find after the first two are granted

Actually editing the second wish a bit(and since a company that can do what I suggested can do it anyways) Essentially the company will be based off re-spawning people Lol

Well if there's a company that can alter your body to anything you'd like ( PRESUMABLY at affordable costs to the average person ) ... what's the point of wasting wish 1 for the exact same thing only without the company? Seems like a wasted wish.

SO bringing back people who were devoured? that seems like a very limited instance of death ( basically death by either mechanical trauma ( chewing or mauling ) or asphyxiation ( as a result of being swallowed whole or being choked to death ) ) .

And honestly I am very mistrusting of the concept behind the New U stations... as they basically store your recorded memory and implant it in to a cloned body... but would that really be a new you? or just some new individual with the same memories and life experience as you? ( this varies of course if you believe there to be such thing as a sole that makes each individual unique or not ). What would happen if say the new U station produced 2 identical individuals ( though we presume there might be failsafe mechanisms in palce ot prevent more then 1 iteration of the same individual to be alive at any given time ). Would both individuals be you?

Would this truly be resurrection? or just a glorified cloning mechanism?

Well With this in mind(Since I would probably talk this over with somebody else first, You being my main candidate now) The first wish Will be for the company that genetically edits the body into a form you find more desirable than your own current body, When finished it will then be able to clone your body and mind from point of death as needed to replace yours if its killed or destroyed.
The second wish is more of a fail-safe to ensure you are always you when you have "re-spawned" Is that your soul will reattach to your new living body unless you wish to move on to the afterlife
And again keeping the third wish just in case there is a screw up >>

Ah so you presume there to be a soul that makes people unique and that this company has godlike powers ( through science ) that allows them to work with the very essence of life, reattaching it to a new body... I can see so many ways in witch this can be used for evil or very selfish needs... spies... murderers, politicians even would like nothing more then to have access to something like this... It could be used in so many bad ways and you just know people would do that given the power to do so...

Governments might use this to create super soldiers... given the easy access to genetics as advanced as you described... I can kind of see your own angle when you made this wish... but just look how people could corrupt your wish to meet their own ends...

Your thoughts on this?

Well Theoretically once it was known people were abusing the technology one can add in filters to read the mind of the person using it(because essentially its already happening when it copy's your mind/updates your user profile) Locking out the changes that can be seen as abusive to the system As the things you had mentioned above..
.. And then again there is always the third wish if all else fails.. I'm a simple dragon I guess.. Tell me how you would have set up the system I mentioned then.. Since Lol you would clearly be my adviser for my wishes

Well that's all well and good as long as you presume that the people running the company are impervious to corruption an can do no wrong... they used to think that about priests and the pope... look where that got us...

If it can read your mind and transfer data it can surely also alter it... this also ties in with just how corruptible the people running this company would be... But it would in effect give them control over the free will of all their clients... There'd be nothing stopping them from enslaving everybody...

Putting people in charge of this kind of technology is a recipe for disaster...

And lastly... why would you need an adviser? Could you trust an adviser? what proof you would have that an adviser would have your own well-being at heart when telling you what you should wish for? You have the power yourself why not just wish for the knowledge, insight and wisdom to be able to formulate these wishes yourself so that they couldn't backfire on you? You'd be sacrificing a wish but you'd be assured that the remaining 2 would be exactly that witch you'd desire...

True I just didn't think of it at the time, and this is why your my adviser since you pretty much just explained to me everything that can go wrong, and the simple way to ensure that what I want is what I get :P Not to mention half the world or so.. On that note I'm adding you to my profile as wish adviser >.> Since your way smarter than this tropical dragon.. I also blame it being 4 in the morning for my lack of well thought wishes...

Well, I'm expositing all of this because this is just make-belief... you could be damn sure that if this were actually real I probably wouldn't be so forthcoming with information if you had the wishes and I didn't... It would probably still be worth teaching somebody about the implications such power might have... but overall when the stakes are so high it's wise to think about what people's motivations are. People are complex beings with a wide range of motivations and beliefs backing their actions...

I was mainly curious what people would wish for given such power and if they would have thought about the implications and consequences their wishes might have on the world and everybody else. ( what I exposeted above is just one particular scenario... there are many for each choice... I just give an individual example that shows how such a wish could go wrong...

I suppose your right, too bad none of this will ever happen tho. It would be interesting to see the world afterwards to be sure

What about those on here which want a body the size of continents? That would suck for everyone.

Of course it would... but given your wish, there wouldn't be anybody stopping them from having something like that done ( except maybe the people working at the company witch would probably refuse to do something like that even if it was within their power because it would end up hurting their own interests... but if somebody presented them with a bagful of money ( or a fat bank account transaction ) to change some person's identity and bodily appearance... they would not skip a beat over it...

Just to let you know in case someone else is missing out, I think you replied this to the wrong comment.

No, I posted it to the right response. ( your comment was the one it was intended for ).

Then I'm afraid to say you lost me with this comment. The only wish I speculated was for immortality.

your comment to witch I posted in repply to states otherwise...

1. Have the Normandy as my personal space ship
2. Have a Dragon as pet/friend
3. Cleanse this world of anything that damages it greatly

Ok.... what would you do with the Normandy exactly? I doubt you have the expertise to fly it ( presuming the wish would make it a real and actually functional ship )... you wouldn't have the fuel for it... and would have no where to go with it... there's no mass effect relays IRL... none of the ME races would exist... and even given the game's own words, even at top speeds, without the mass relays, the best ships would take hundreds of years to reach any new solar system.... SO... what the hell would you do with the Normandy?

If we presume that the wish bends the laws of physics to make a dragon ( the way we imagine them ) a viable organism, and also gives it the mental capacity to be friendly... and intelligent. if it was just one individual... don't you think news of it's existence would spread? And with that news would come people who would want such a unique organism for themselves? People would try to steal it from you...

And lastly... OH BOY... you do realize that HUMANS are one of the biggest LOCAL reasons for damaging the world ( there's external factors of course such as asteroids or solar flares ) But since those are external factors and you wished for cleansing the world itself of any sources of damage... well... congratulations... you just inadvertently ( I HOPE ) wished for a worldwide extinction of the Human race.

You sure have a way of "anihilating" ones dreams xP

And technically if you put it the hard way i can very well use all 3 wishes for 1 of those to try and make it more possible and make it work a bit

I'm curious how you'd do that? That's why I posted this journal. Let me hear your thoughts on how you'd go about doing that? I'm genuinely curious.

For the first.

1.Ill simply wish for the Tech to be available to construct the proper space ships that can fly inter stellar and also make use of the Mass Relays

2.Ill also wish for Mass Relays scattered fro the Galaxy and ofc one close to solar system

3. Well 1 wish left cos heck i presume even with our monkey brains will figure out how to use the tech we have at our disposal, so ill just wish for any actual aliens out there, to have this tech also. Yes ofc very likely for galactic warfare to start but that's the Races fault not sciences fault.

Ill think of those other 2 later cos yeh those require more minute thinking

Ok, agreeable, basically people having the knowledge and resources and mans with witch to create such interstellar crafts and also for the mass relays to exist in real life and function the same way they did in the game ( though HOPEFULLY not including the Reaper threat that came WITH the mass relays ).

And yes I'm sure people would be able to adapt to the tech eventually... if they wouldn't just use it to kill themselves in the process...

As for wish 3... you jsut wish that if there's other aliens out there that they would make use of the same tech as we would... fair enough... but what if... there are no aliens out there? It's a valid possibility... we don't know if there are any... defenetly haven't seen any signs of there being any, and your wishing the mass effect relays in to existence doesn't mean that the reapers, protheans and all the other races in that universe were brought along with them so they would simply exist without an origin or a creator ( well technically you'd be the creator )...

SO what if our galaxy is empty? You have the mass effect relays connecting various points in our galaxy ( similar to what is shown on the map in ge game ) but what if there's nothing there"? what if it's just dead worlds?

The best for witch you could hope for at that point is to bring humanity to the stars and avert a global extinction brought about by pollution, overpopulation, global warfare or the death of our sun... and others I can't think of at the time.

And if there were aliens out there, like you pointed out... chances are they wouldn't be peaceful... just like we might not be peaceful. It's a risk.

They are all valid wishes just like your first 3... I'm just trying to see if people think of the kind of consequences their wishes COULD have outside of the immediate benefits that they wish for.

Fair enough, as for if no aliens are out there. We can only know if we explore, and that is why i wish for space travel.

And with the consequences, It seams to work exactly like the law of physics with "Every force has an equal and opposite reaction". So even choices work that way.

And i stated earlier that the Tech available to everyone will cause bad things to happen, but most of those are due to the choices and decisions made by those races (including us), so Science is not technically to blame. Even do yeah is it worth it ? The risk of more harm to be done then good ? I for one am for progress just like in Deus Ex 3, science should not be hindered, only its methods and reasons for it should be questioned,

Indeed it is the human condition and each individual's moral outlook that ends up misusing the inventions of science to bad ends... science itself isn't evil or good.... it simply provides tools... how we use those tools is what deffines good and evil... but with that in mind... would you think that our society, the way it is today, would be ready to have such technology at it's disposal? When wars are still fought amongst ourselves, poverty is still a big problem, when freedom of speech is not global and when we are ruled by greedy pigs... where equal rights between people and races and sexes is still in it's infancy ( yes we are taking steps in the right direction but we still have a long way to go ).

DO you think we are ready to expand beyond our home-world when we can't even get along here? Amongst ourselves? How would we get along with possible aliens ( presuming they weren't just as bloodthirsty or more so then we are )?

Personally... I don't think we would be ready for that as a species... I'm all for progress too... but giving a cavemen a machine-gun ( and teaching him how to use it ) won't make him civilized... it will just make him a more dangerous savage...

True enough, but i for one definitely want to see whats out there, if i had the means to and training id even go out there by myself if i have to.

And yes true enough, then how can you make something or someone educated, civil and peaceful ?

that only comes through education and tolerance that is built up over time. You can't just snap your fingers and expect everybody to share thsoe values. Builting a society that thrives on such principles require time but in essence that is all that is required I think... Tolerance, openness to new ideas, skeptical thinking and education.

If we could embrace those concepts as well as a more focused study on what is morally right and morally wrong would go a long way to making our species and our lives a whole lot better.

And once we have fixed those problems... then I believe we would be ready to set our sight towards the stars... Let's hope w achieve thsoe ends B4 we destroy ourselves, some natural disaster kills us or the sun burns out....

Sun will burn out in over 1 Million years so we wont worry about that to soon. But yes what you say is very true. But there are many defects of humanity that i find it hard to best. Greed, Corruption, over-zealosness regarding a principle/idea, desire (and im more thinking at desires such as lust for Power and those things)

Still the part with whats right and wrong is sadly something which changes and shifts . What was yesterday considered wrong can be tomorrow seen as good. Theres also things which mislead us, and im afraid its possible even those who should represent science can trick or fool us.

1. Know the secrets of the universe.

2. Gain all the super powers ever imagined.

3. Being able to always chose/create my own afterlife in any setting i wish.

Basically wishing for all knowledge... We yet have no idea just how vast or large the universe is... let alone what might lie beyond it... I am quite certain that we do not have the mental capacity to hold that much knowledge... I think that wish might just end up short circuiting your own brain... But... it is still a valid wish even though it might end up lobotomizing yourself...

All the superpowers ever imagined... I'm not going to comment on this because of how .... over the top this is... but I doubt it would make your life very pleasant in a world where everybody is so inferior... and you might just end up killing yourself with your own powers if not careful ( unless immortality and invincibility are also considered superpowers, witch bring their own set of problems ).

And the last wish I will simply disqualify because it's a play on the wishing for extra wishes that's not allowed under the pretense of this scenario ( unless you remove the word "always" from it ) you only get one shot at this under the rules of this scenario.

1: For Magic to be real, in the sense of wizards and spell books. This way if people wanted to change their forme or appearance they could.
2: For me to have some kind of nack or deeper understanding of said magic. Not something huge, just enough to give me a headstart and make it worth my while to actually work at understanding it.
3: For dragons and other such mythical creatures to be real.

Basically what you'd be wishing for is the fundamental change of how the laws of physics work in this world... and then again who's to say we couldn't eventually get to a point where we could achieve effects similar to what we think of as magic... afterall if we are presented with a technology that is so much more advanced then our own that we simply do not understand ow it works or why... the closest thing we can relate it to is magic... ANYWAYS, it's a valid wish.

But magic in the common sens of the word ( mostly the fantasy one ) is far more encompassing then simple Polymorphism... it would give individuals power that they wouldn't even dream of.

I'm presuming of course that this doesn't happen innately and that all people would automatically have such powers... or you'd see the end of the world in a matter of houres after making this wish.

I'm presuming you mean that people still have to learn and study it and can only master it after a lifetime of study ( and you want a head-start in it... acceptable ).

But still... can people really be trusted with thatk ind of power? I imagine people would try to use it to further their own ends... or people who might do things with such power that might willingly or unwillingly cause suffering and death to others... There's so many ways in witch such a wish can be sued for evil and destructive pourpouces that I can't even begin to lsit them... SO I troully wonder if something like that would be a very good thing to happen... I don't doubt it's validity as a wish ( and it's ALMOST bordering on the whole wishing for mroe wishes thing sicne nothing short of magic/divine intervention could grant you these wishes to begin with... but for the porupouce of this scenario I'm gona assume the magic you envision wouldn't be as powerful as these 3 wishes you're given else they would be disqualified from the beginning ).

As for the last wish... wishing in to existence what is an infinite diversity of creatures that might or might not be viable under the laws of physics is a huge undertaking... also given that our world would still be as large as it was still had the same resources but suddenly having to accommodate thousands if not more new races each with god only knows how many individuals... that sounds like a natural disaster right there...

Also there's no telling how those would react to the dominant human population on this world... or how the human population would react to them...

But somehow I doubt it would be all "sunshine and rainbows" as they say...

Oh I'm well aware there is the possibility for these wishes to turn out horribly, and I'd make them anyways. In fact I'd probably be more pleased with my wishes and less likely to try and find a way to get more latter on down the line if it does go horribly wrong.

Could you imagine how boring it would be if it all went smoothly? Perfect harmony and understanding, and not a rampaging monster in sight?

1. The ability to transform my body at will to be what I believe is my spiritual self. IE a dragon.

2. To have the mental capacity to have telekinesis and use it to my own will.

3. If the first does not apply, then I would wish for the ability to fly.

Let's assume you simply desire to become a shape-shifter and that you thought in advance that any form you might be able to take would of course be VIABLE according to our laws of physics so you wouldn't end up killing yourself by transforming in to a deep sea fish and exploding because of the lack of pressure. Or creating a being that wouldn't be viable and die upon transformation ( you did take that in to consideration right? )

I'm hesitant to state that having a high mental capacity would give you telekinesis... might have just been easier to wish for yourself to have the ability to telekinetic move objects... But i'll presume that's what you meant ( though with wishes of such power you really have to be careful with your wording ).

SO what would your 3rd be if the first one was viable?

1. Yes, within realistic bounds. Though with a limitation. I do not want to be able to transform into anything, only the one thing.

2. Specific, with a set of rules that would go along with the wish given at the specific time. I would be more specific, given, just to makes things simple I said it simple here.

3. If the first and second were viable, then I would wish for acceptance as to who I am so that none other would try and do "experimentation" upon me.

or be the object of racism or intolerance. Witch sadly is a prevalent fact of our society even to this day ( though I believe we are taking steps in the right direction, I have no doubt suddenly being a dragon would lead to a lot of prejudice or outright hostility from certain people. SO it is a wise move to wish for acceptance for what you're new form would be... otherwise you'd be facing a nightmare...

1: a happy, secure, well-paying career after college
2: good luck
3: long life

technically I would wish this upon my love rather than myself, I really just want him to be happy and fullfilled

well you could just wish that on both... or everybody in the world for that matter... why on earth would you restrict yourself to wishing them upon just 1 individual? That you are willing to sacrifice these wishes for somebody else's sake is noble... but knowing that you had the power to give everybody such benefits and chose instead to just give them to 1 individual seems... selfish. Like I said in the description the wishes can be as all encompassing as you desire so it's fully within the realm of possibility to wish for everybody to have a better life yet you chose to just give that to one single individual... What are your thoughts n that?

There's nothing particularly wrong with each individual wish except that they are rather generic. happy secure and well paying career by Who's standards? ( I presume your own so it's ok ).

Good luck... I guess this sparks up the discussion on weather luck actually exists but I presume you jsut mean a string of favorable events to the individual in question so I'm willing to accept that.

Long life Is ok and again I presume you mean that by your own standards of what a long life could be.

Happy and secure as in boss isn't a dick (or if you are your own boss you enjoy your job and you will never have to fear losing it) and it pays well. Also, I have always thought of 3 wishes and genies as being you can only wish it about one thing, rather than everyone (seems like wishing for more than one wish in my opinion) so it isn't that I don't want others to be happy. Also, I don't want everything to be perfect, just generally good and livable.

Good luck as in not severely bad luck such as horrible automobile accidents, loss of limbs, stroke, heart attack, similar medical issues, brain damage, etc, people around them don't get terrible problems or die too soon, house burning down, theft, etc.

and as far as a long life, just until neither of us can mentally remember anything lol :p probably about 80

sorry if I came off as selfish, I didn't mean it that way. Just figuring the wish as not all encompassing.

Well like I said, the wishes themselves are limitless... as long as it's the same thing it can apply to as many individuals as you like. The only NO NO is wishing for more wishes ( as in giving you more choices to choose from ). Humans I think are incapable of being perfect because the very notion of perfection is unattainable and it varies according to what people think perfection is. But wishing for a general improvement in the life of all individuals would benefit everybody.

And that means you didn't read the fine print when being offered these wishes... If something like this happened... fi you were suddenly given this much power... you better pay attention to the regulations that come with it or you might end up destroying existence because of begin careless.

In your case you would have just improved the life of one individual... nothing wrong with that... but it just seemed like a waste of such potential brought about by not paying attention to what kind of power you actually had.

I guess I really didn't think of it as being so serious, just voicing my opinion on what I would wish for if the wishes only worked on one person.

hmmm three wishes

1: to be able to transform into my fursona whenever I feel like it (tho I think other people would hunt me ^^; )
2: a working portal device instead of using planes to travel to different locations in the world
3: money to someone that I really care for and hopefully means to see each other someday

Yeah if you were the only person that could do that... you'd be quite the coveted individual to a lot of people that didn't have the best of intentions...

Would be wiser to wish for a well implemented global teleportation system that replaces transportation by land air or sea that cannot be abused by evil people with bad intentions in mind. Would be better I think.

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well implemented would be hard to get, considering big companies will try go grab the rights for the portal system and might divide on how many different zones you jump over and price along with that
but also ... having not evil people using this system would make it hard too unless they manage to make one portal for bagage only and with a scan that is able to detect illegal substances and send a note with the id card directly to the systems and policeforce at place

but again why worry about all hese problems when you can just wish it so that they couldn't take advantage of it. Would take a more complex wish making but it would be possible.

1. My own pet dragon. Preferably a playful and peaceful vegetarian one who wouldn't eat me. Should be sentinent and have more brainpower than normal lizards or dinos...
2. World peace and more equal distribution of wealth and resources of the Earth
3. More efficient rocket engines and technology for space exploration and getting humankind off this rock.

yeh a pet dragon that wouldn't eat you and wouldn't eat you out of house and home. Yeah would be nice.

World peace can bring it's own set of problems if not implemented properly but at least it's a noble intention.

And space exploration... while it would be a nice thing to be able to travel the stars I wonder if it would be a good thing if we escaped the confines of this world in the state we are now... I think we , as a species need to mature a bit B4 we can look to the stars... if we can't even get along here on this world... what would w do if we had more? I think the result wouldn't be pretty...

World peace first, then space exploration :)

By having unlimited energy supplies for everyone, there wouldn't be need to fight on oil, water and food etc.

But I'd be lying if having my own dragon wouldn't be the priority number one :)

or they could do the same thing with those resources as they do with the resources on our own world... would end up being used by a very small percentage of the population and the rest would still starve. I don't think that would change. Especially given the costs of harvesting those resources.

But I can have my dragon? :)

ideally so, you should.

Still as a species I think we have to learn to coexist here on our rock... before we seek to fling ourselves amongst the stars.

I think the only thing I would wish is to reincarnate into a black dragon after this life :P, what are your wishes? just curious

assuming that a black dragon is in fact a viable lifeforms? and that lives in a viable environment?

As form y wishes... honestly I wouldn't know what to wish for given such all encompassing wishes. I would want somehow make the world a better place. But formulating such wishes so that they do not backfire on you and screw everybody over... that's not easy.

yes of course, I assume that they exist

1: Have mankind stop exhibiting malice towards one another; includes a simple lie to the point of pointless murder.

2: Greater knowledge which can be used solely for the betterment of myself or my fellow man.

3: I'm not sure what my third wish could be. I'm an otherkin, but I don't think a dragon would quite fit in with the world as it is. I would love to have a high income sustainable lifestyle, but I despise when people are given those rights for free essentially. I'd wish for better technology, but this is something that should be attained through our awesome evolution of having larger brains... and somewhat coincides with wish two anyways.

How about I save wish three in case I need to fix something else unforeseen caused by wish 1 or 2.

I wonder if humanity as a whole could cope with not being able to lie... because laying is so much integrated in to our wya of being... Imagine not being able to abstain yourself from telling that somebody is ugly, or that their ideas are stupid and so on? Sometimes... lies are used to prevent a greater conflict from erupting or from ruining a relation you have. I'm not saying laying is good I just dunno if humanity could cope all of a sudden with being unable to lie.

Better be careful with your formulation... you or your fellow men... are we leaving the women out of the equation here? that sounds like a sexist statement to me...

And yea it's good to keep 1 as a backup... but it would be peaty sad if you had to sue wish 3 to undo everything you did with wish 1 and 2 and be back to square 1... would be rather demoralizing... I have seen that scenario in several movies/cartoons and i never liked it.

Honestly? I would prefer that. Not only that but it would coincide with the second wish that I made so that I could help people understand that everything isn't as bad as what people might say, and that one can always improve themselves.

My fellow men* then. That's considered to be a gender-neutral word in English, and I agree that 'man' does specifically mean a male being (as does apparently everyone else). Mankind, however, does refer to all humans including genders and ethnicities. Don't worry, I'm not sexist. =p I'm anything but that.

I think it would work well as a learning experience. If the world truly can't be made a better place with that of instant gratification through wishing, then perhaps there truly is no hope left for our species.

1. The ability to shapeshift.

2. The ability to control and alter reality and physics.

3. The ability to accomplish and excel at any task I set my mind to without fail.

#3 would be really boring. Excitement comes from (beating a) challenge. If everything is easy, why bother doing anything at all?

In case I want to do something that would be nigh impossible, but still achievable. Like, curing cancer or AIDs.
In those cases, its more for what the result is, rather than the thrill of achieving something.

The clause is, anything I set my mind to. So only the ones I'm really serious about achieving. Otherwise, I generally don't try that hard enough to be bothered succeeding or not. XD

Otherwise I just woulda wrote 'To be the best at everything'.

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You don't get any wishes. Have a nice day.

I think my next gaming character will have a delusion that "anything I do, I succeed at."

Should be entertaining.

1. To let my freinds sister be able to have her own kids.
2. Help my friends get ahead in life for a better future.
3. Have the power to change the weather so its not so hot out.

1. World peace (a cliché, but anyway.. If that also means limitations to humankinds so-called "free will", or selfishness, so be it)
2. Huge advances in science (medicine and space exploration are top of my list) and making the roles of religions substantially smaller
3. Sustainable Earth (fewer people and less exploitation of Earth's resources)

Actually quite a selfish list, because anything I could wish for myself wouldn't make me happy in the end. Or I just lack imagination :)

Well i would take a bit mroe detailling and setting of parameters ofr world peace ( like now whiping out all of humanity to stop wars, or enslaving everybopdy to achieve the same goal ) and so on, but if formulated properly yes, an oble wish.

ANd honestly if you basicly efficiently eliminated war from the world without screwing everybody over, then with no more need to invest anything in military development and having liminated the mentality of waring factions orcontries and ifghting over resorucesand space, it would be a good step towards alocationg theresources that thsoe institutions eat every year to more important things like science and development for civilians. ( not developing the next best weapon ). AN equally interesting wish would be, next to eliminating war, is to somehow eliminate crime without also taking away everybody's free will or enslaving them or what ever . If you could eliminate those 2 things... war and crime... well there's still be a lot of work to be done... because even if it would be impossible to make war or commit a crime, people's mentalities might still not change. le sigh. I think... it would be interesting if you could somehow limit every persone's greed. Like not eliminate the concept of greed. because without it there would be no drive to advance. But to put a cap on it. so that nobody would want to have more wealth then they could possibly actually use in a lifetime.

ANd finally if all those problems would be resolved... and humanity wouldn't be transformed to vegetablesi n the process... then I think they would actually focuse on the really important thins themselves. Like development of civilian science , food development, hopefully a world whide consensus to stop multyplying luike crazy so as to avoid hunger, or overpopulation... and then maybe even space exploration and colonization of new worlds but again without the wanton need to overpopulate and consume like an everhungry machine...

Gods it's a hell o al ot more complicated then putting it in to 3 short sentances thatm ight jsut backfire on you really baddly.

It is indeed very difficult, and it's very likely to backfire even if the smartest people on Earth planned it for years. Maybe some external intelligence would be needed, aliens or artificial life for example. But maybe they would just come to the economical solution: wiping out the humanity

But I'm still trying for my point 1, just for fun:

Source of the problem is of course the human brain, so I would tweak that. Not necessarily anything radical. I'm thinking of bonobo/chimpanzee difference, the other species is very prone to violence and the other is not. War-like tendencies have likely helped humanity in the distant past, and those tendencies are now diminishing, but I would accelerate the process. I think eliminating wars, mass murders and senseless violence would be a good start, eliminating crime altogether sounds too totalitarian and would lead to other problems. "Crime" is often a subjective matter, violence/death to the human body less so. Some kind of aversion reaction would maybe work. For example, a man is unlikely to kick another man in the privates already, maybe that aversion could be extended

Greed.. that is a very difficult problem indeed. Taking out personal greed, but leaving the greed for your community? No, the communities (whatever they might be) would start to compete. A single instance of "greed", a hive mind basically? We wouldn't be humans anymore..

First off, immortality is boring. You have no idea. What are you going to do after you've watched the planet burn in radioactive fire?
No. All an immortal wants, is to die. I wouldn't wish that curse on anyone.

I wouldn't want wealth either. Enough to get by, sure, but millions? No.

As for what I'd actually wish for...I don't know. I have desires, but nothing's...wish worthy? A lot of its nebulous and poorly defined.

Finally somebody who understands that immortality would suck in the long term.

And again, mega wealth just brings too much problems with it. Enough to live a comfortable life, with enough money to pay the bills, pay for food and healthcare and insurance and the like and have a bit left over for diversity or emergencies would be just enough realistically. Basically the equivalent off getting a salary each month for free. Would be more then enough IMO.

And I bumped in to the same problem... I honestly don't know what to wish for given such all encompassing wishes... I would want to try to make humanity and the world as a whole better somehow... but formulating a wish in such a way that it wouldn't screw the world over is... difficult.

Indeed.

On the immortality thing, I've read enough science fiction.

On the wealth thing, I agree. Enough to live how I currently do, without having to work if I so choose. I'd probably have a job anyway, to do when I'm bored with not-working.

And again, I agree. I've often (day)dreamed about what I'd do to fix the political climate if I had a time machine. I still haven't figured out how to solve the problem.

the problem that we as a species have is very complex as it lies buried beneath hundreds if not thousands of years of evolution in the bad direction. We are just now starting to emerge from that dark past and making ( baby ) steps towards a more tolerant and friendly environment... but we are still a long ways off from the utopia we each desire...

Indeed.

1. To be able to acquire skill faster
2. No skill limit (as in I can always get better)
3. My computer (both current and ones in the future) will never get any viruses, spyware, and things of that nature.

I wouldn't really wish for anything that affects more people then myself.

Well... you don't technically have any limit to your skill in anything IRL... your limit is defined by your lifespan... SO you're asking to get read of something you never had .
The 3rd is acceptable.

1. To get a nice big condo with a nice rewarding job.
2. To reduce the gap between social classes and preventing it to widen any further.
3. To give freedom to whatever entity who gave me these 3 wishes.

... sure, I could get a magical rubber cube able of morphing into anything or any creature and that would obey to all of my commands... it sure would be a nice pet. X3~

First wish is acceptable. ( hell given more normal wishes I wouldn't mind having that either ).

Second wish is a bit sensitive if you ask me. For instance communism aimed to do the same thing. Reduce the difference between classes by making everybody equal... everybody equally miserable that is. SO better be careful with the formulation there or you might just screw everybody over really bad.

And i never said the source of these wishes is a living entity who was imprisoned in to this task somehow. You are probably acting on the concept of a genie in a bottle.

immortality
invincibility
and the ability to be where ever I wanted to, like teleporting or what ever

so you cannot die and you cannot be killed... but... nowhere in there does it say anything about being forever yung or having a particular age... given that consideration you would just continue to age and wither but be unable to die... eventually you wouldn't even be able to move or do any action at all but still you'd be alive and conscious... honestly that doesn't sound like a very good fate.

And ok let's presume that you somehow get the forever young wish bunched up with immortality. What then? what happens once humanity perishes? once our world dies? once our sun dies? What if we are never able to get off this rock... or what if we do and find there's nothing out there? no new place to visit... no habitable place? What hen when you are left alone? unable to die ? Is that such a good fate?

the kinda of immortal that I don't age yes as if I DID age I couldn't really be immortal and age cuz I'd eventually be dust and there for dead, also I have an eternity to get over any sadness or loneliness I come down with

I think you are likelly to just go insane with lonelyness... But that's just my opinion.

1st wish: if I'm alive one day, I must be alive in the following one
2nd wish: starting with 1€, my bank account balance must double everyday
3rd wish: being x time(days) and y sexual pleasure(arbitrary units), I want my private satisfaction to evolute according to the graph of (-3/x^2)+8

And what if you weren't alive in the previous one? your formulation isn't as foolproof as you think.

wish 2... you'd soon ahve more money then you could possibly need... and that would lead to inflation that owuld make all money useless rather quicklly because the rate of multiplication of money that you speak of is very quick. And then you would have nothing... congrats.

As for wish 3... it's been a while since I did mathematics... but what's the point of naming a variable ( Y in your case ) if you aren't actually going to use it?

it's y=(-3/x^2)+8

Ironically, Day 0 sucks monkey nuts (negative infinity) and every day after that is 8 arbitrary units of sexual pleasure.

It'd be a lot better to simply ask for the equation of y = 8.

that would make more sens. but yeah for the first few basic values that X can take Y would actually be smaller then 8. Given the wya the equation is set up, the first part of the equation would never ever yeald a positive result ( he'd have to take negative number of days for it to yeald a positive result ) so, in every iteration that I can imagine, he'd end up subtracting from 8 an amount that gets smaller and smaller with each iteration but would never be enough to give him more then 8 units. SO yeah, it would have been easier to just state that Y be = to 8 ( like you suggested ). It's BASICALLY the same thing.

Yup.

And he hasn't even defined what a unit is worth? For all we know, ( given the info he has given us ) it might take 16 units to achieve orgasm... so he'd be stuck never being able to achieve it.

Or it might take 0.001 units... and in that case 8 might be an overdose and might put him in a coma or kill him...

Hehe...

yeah there's a problem with my 1st wish, I forgot to pecify the day the wish start to be valid. if it go further anyway, a mathematic impossibility would be created, and a fail in the the space/time web would appear. if things get complicated, all universe could collapse in a big dark hole

doesn't matter if money looses all its power with my 2nd wish, humanity would be forced to enter in a primitive comunism status (don't confuse with modern comunism), obviusly the best political system ever for being so simple

regarding the last wish, dn't worry, I won't fap myself to death, just want to maximize the best form of pleasure humans know, and forget that mathematic expression, it was a stupid way to complicate things

Creating an entirely new world to live in seems like a stretch but who knows... it might be possible given the conditions. Though what would you do if it wouldn't be the type of fantasy world you had in mind? What if it was based on the kind of fantasy that you aren't used to?

And if you went to live in an other world... how would you go to a con? you'd need to be able to return here to do that but you didn't mention in your first wish that you'd want to be able to freely traverse between the 2 worlds... so one of two things would happen. either wish 2 would be invalid because you couldn't go to a con... or wish 1 would be invalid because by c0omming back you'd be forfeiting your chance to return to the fantasy world.

Lastly, a noble choice to sacrifice a wish for somebody else.

1: Humanity wiped out and nature restored as if humanity never existed and nothing similar would never return *EVER!*. After that i could care less about wishes 2&3

Heh, a valid wish... if a somewhat terrifying concept. I dunno weather to take your comment as a joke, and laugh, or take it serious and... be scared of you...

Ironically, intelligent life is inevitable. Otherwise the universe doesn't exist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

Well it would still be a valid wish... he would end up destroying all life... it would be valid... just not the end result he might have imagined... not that he'd care as he wouldn't exist at that point anyways...

well if these Epithedrials can belive and think things, it means that they are sentient themselves... so... wouldn't they end up being the bigest hypocrites in existence?

Oh wait, got to be careful to your formulation. YOu DID say any "OTHER" sentient life... so basicly they belive themselves to be the only incoruptable sentient life? yeah... well by thinking that aren't tey just admitting to be as corupt as everybody esle who wedged war?

I wouldn't really know what the hell to wish for...
I'd mostly want harmony between humans and our planet if not the universe.
Maybe something like pokémon being real haha.