How utterly absurd. I’m sure someone was paid a disturbing amount of money to come up with that.
What drifts to mind is the discussion at LessWrong (remember Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality?) about a deterministic wishing machine.
The only safe genie is a genie that shares all your judgment criteria, and at that point, you can just say “I wish for you to do what I should wish for.” Which simply runs the genie’s should function.
