How is it different from what Eliezer calls "I wish for you to do what I should wish for"?
With a safe genie, wishing is superfluous. Just run the genie.
Maybe it's only trivially different. But I'm imagining a genie that is sapient (so it's not like the time machine...though I don't know if the time machine pump thing is a coherent idea) and it's not safe. Suppose, say, that it's programed to fulfill any wish asked of it so as to produce two reactions: first, to satisfy the wisher that the wish was fulfilled as stated, and second, to make the wisher regret having wished for that. That seems to me to capture the 'mischievous genie' of lore, and it's an idea EY doesn't talk about in that article, except mayb...
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