I simplify here because a lot of people think I will have contradictory expectations for a more complex event.
But I think you’re being even more picky here. Do I -expect- that increasing the amount of gold in the world will slightly affect the market value? Yes. But I haven’t wished anything related to that, my wish is -only- about some gold appearing in front of me.
Having the genie magically change how much utility I get from the gold is an even more ridiculous extension. If I wish for gold, why the heck would the genie feel it was his job to change my mental state to make me like gold more?
Possibly we just think very differently, and your ‘expectation’ of what would happen when gold appears also includes every thing you would do with that gold later, despite, among many, many things, not even knowing -when- you would speak the wish to get the gold, or what form it would appear in. And you even have in mind some specific level of happiness that you ‘expect’ to get from it. If so, you’re right, this trick will not work for you.
If you wish for gold, it’s because you have expectation on what you’ll do with that gold. Maybe fuzzy ones, but if you didn’t have any, you wouldn’t wish for gold. So you can’t dissociate the gold and the use when what you’re speaking about is “expectations”.
Or else, solutions like “the world is changed so that the precious metal is lead, and gold has low value, but all the rest is the same” would work. And that wouldn’t meet your “expectations” about the wish at all.
I simplify here because a lot of people think I will have contradictory expectations for a more complex event.
But I think you’re being even more picky here. Do I -expect- that increasing the amount of gold in the world will slightly affect the market value? Yes. But I haven’t wished anything related to that, my wish is -only- about some gold appearing in front of me.
Having the genie magically change how much utility I get from the gold is an even more ridiculous extension. If I wish for gold, why the heck would the genie feel it was his job to change my mental state to make me like gold more?
Possibly we just think very differently, and your ‘expectation’ of what would happen when gold appears also includes every thing you would do with that gold later, despite, among many, many things, not even knowing -when- you would speak the wish to get the gold, or what form it would appear in. And you even have in mind some specific level of happiness that you ‘expect’ to get from it. If so, you’re right, this trick will not work for you.
If you wish for gold, it’s because you have expectation on what you’ll do with that gold. Maybe fuzzy ones, but if you didn’t have any, you wouldn’t wish for gold. So you can’t dissociate the gold and the use when what you’re speaking about is “expectations”.
Or else, solutions like “the world is changed so that the precious metal is lead, and gold has low value, but all the rest is the same” would work. And that wouldn’t meet your “expectations” about the wish at all.