MugaSofer comments on Failed Utopia #4-2 - Less Wrong
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That explanation works, well done.
"Since you would not remember making the wish, and since you would see no evidence of a wish having been made, you would not regret having made the wish" does not.
(It still leaves open the possibility of wishing for an outcome I would be actively pleased with, also, but that's a matter for the wisher, not the genie.)