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So: A genie pops up and says, "You have one wish left."
What do you wish for? Because presumably the giftwrapped FAI didn't work so great.
"Destroy yourself as near to immediately as possible, given that your method of self destruction causes no avoidable harm to anything larger than an ant."
They shrink the planet down to below our Schwarzschild radius, holding spacetime in place for just long enough to explain what you just did.
Alternately, they declare your wish is logically contradictory - genies are larger than ants.
At the start of the scenario, you are already dead with probability approaching 1. Trying to knock the gun away can't hurt.
I was criticizing the wording of the "ant" qualifier, not the attempt to destroy the genie.