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My son was asked what he'd wish for when he could wish for any one thing whatsoever.
He considered a while and then said: "I have so many small wishes that I'd wish for many wishes."
My ex-wife settled for "I want to be able to conjure magic" reasoning that then she could basically make any thing come true.
For me it is obviously "I want a friendly artificial general intelligence" - seems like the safest bet.
Thus basically we all chose alike things.
Maybe he'll grow up to be a mathematician.
Naa, he is too practical. Builds real things. It's more likely that one of his youger brothers do. Like the five year old who told me that infinity can be reached only in steps of infinity each (thus one step), not in smaller steps (following some examples how 1000 can be reached in steps of 1, 100, 1000, 200 and other).
If I only had three wishes, I would still spend one of them on having enough sense to make good wishes. I'd probably do that if I only had two wishes.
I might even use my only wish on having significantly better sense. My current situation isn't desperate-- if I only had one wish and were desperate, the best choice might well be to use the wish on dealing with the desperate circumstance as thoroughly as possible.
But the AI would still be constrained by the laws of physics. Intelligence can't beat thermodynamics. You need to wish for an omnipotent friendly AI.