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Comment author: faul_sname 06 September 2012 06:37:11AM 2 points [-]

If I kill myself, there is no nth wish as n -> infinity, or a busy beaver function of Graham's numberth wish, so the first wish is wishing for something undefined.

I think you're right, though I'm not sure that's exactly a good thing.

and they could be a convergent infinite series, if the probability of wanting to kill myself went down each time.

I see no particular reason to expect that to be the case.

Using wishes to make it impossible for me to want to kill myself might come faster than killing myself.

Excellent point. That might just work (though I'm sure there are still a thousand ways it could go mind-bogglingly wrong).