“Destroy yourself as near to immediately as possible, given that your method of self destruction causes no avoidable harm to anything larger than an ant.”
They shrink the planet down to below our Schwarzschild radius, holding spacetime in place for just long enough to explain what you just did.
Alternately, they declare your wish is logically contradictory—genies are larger than ants.
A sphere whose radius equals the Earth’s Schwarzschild radius is larger than an ant.
At the start of the scenario, you are already dead with probability approaching 1. Trying to knock the gun away can’t hurt.
I was criticizing the wording of the “ant” qualifier, not the attempt to destroy the genie.
“Destroy yourself as near to immediately as possible, given that your method of self destruction causes no avoidable harm to anything larger than an ant.”
They shrink the planet down to below our Schwarzschild radius, holding spacetime in place for just long enough to explain what you just did.
Alternately, they declare your wish is logically contradictory—genies are larger than ants.
A sphere whose radius equals the Earth’s Schwarzschild radius is larger than an ant.
At the start of the scenario, you are already dead with probability approaching 1. Trying to knock the gun away can’t hurt.
I was criticizing the wording of the “ant” qualifier, not the attempt to destroy the genie.