Well, that's true, based on those rules. The first person dies before the wish is completed, so clearly he wasn't satisfied. Let me pick a comparably hazardous interpretation that does seem to follow those rules.
The Genie writes down the perspicuous instructions in highly Radioactive, Radioluminescent Paint, comparable to that which poisoned people in the 1900's but worse, in a massive, bold font. The instructions are 'Leave the area immediately and wish to be cured of Radiation poisoning.'
When the wisher realizes that they have in fact received a near immediately fatal dose of radiation, they leave the area, follow the wish and seem to be cured and not die. When they call out the Genie for putting them in a deadly situation and forcing them to burn a wish to get out of it, the genie refers them to Jafar doing something similar to Abis Mal in Aladdin 2. The Genie DID give them a perfectly valid instructions on a concise wish. Had the Genie made the instructions longer, they would have died of radiation poisoning before reading them and wishing for it, and instructions which take longer than your lifespan to use hardly seem to the Genie to be perspicuous.
Is this more in mind with what you were thinking of?
Is this more in mind with what you were thinking of?
That's certainly a lot closer. I guess my question is: does this satisfy rule number three? One might worry that exposing the wisher to a high dose of radiation is totally inessential to the presentation of an explanation of what to wish for. Are you satisfied that your story differs from this one?
Me: O Genie, my first wish is for your to tell me clearly me what I should ask for!
[The Genie draws a firearm and shoots me in the stomach]
Genie: First, wish for immediate medical attention for a gunshot wound.
This story, it seems to me, would violate rule three.
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