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The scroll modifies your expectations. The genie twist-interprets X, and then assesses your expectations of the result of the genie's interpretation of X. ("Why, that's just what you'd expect destroying the world to do! What are you complaining about?") The complete list of expectations regarding X is at least slightly self-contradictory, so of course the genie has no option except to modify your expectations directly...
OOoh, is this now the "eliezer points out how your wish would go wrong" thread! I wanna play to! :p
"I wish for that which I'd wish for if I had an uninterrupted year of thinking about it and freely talking to a dedicated copy of Eliezer Yudovsky"
No sleep, or anything that would interrupt thinking about it, for a year, might lead to an interesting wish.
Well, it's obvious what happens then: the genie lets a dedicated copy of Eliezer out of a box.
Uh oh...
Eliezer Yudkowsky:
Eliezer Yudovsky: