Don’t you believe I deserve wisdom if I ask for it?
Not my call, it’s the genie’s call at that point! My hands are clean!
At least you don’t need to wash them. Good.
Some people argue that we need illusions to function. Absolute wisdom might be realizing that life is meaningless and there is no point to existing. It’s a lack of wisdom that allows us to feel that we have a reason for living.
No, it gives the power to grant others wishes, not to give himself more.
But absolute wisdom would also allow me to accept that fact with the necessary equanimity and balance of mind. Ah, well… Better that to keep on living a lie, innit?
ETA: BTW I have the feeling that your assumtion is right. Better be sure, though. And I don’t need a reason for living, I am already alive. I need a reason for not dying. Or for dying with peace of mind, if that is the best I can do. If anything else is an illusion then so be it. Sorry for you all that don’t realize that yet.
So, would asking that Ye be circumcised be in violation of any of the rules?
What if I wish that the only change is that the genie is good instead of evil from now on?
The wisher didn’t specify how the money had to be submitted. Remember, the Genie is EVIL.
The entire universe freezes in place.
You get one thin slice of turkey on stale bread topped by 50 thousand pounds of rancid lettuce, garnished with one swipe of grey poupon.
Superboy granted a similar wish to an arrogant rich boy. He flew him back in time to where he was the only boy on Earth. You’re definitely omnipotent when you’re the only member of your species.
There’s probably a better structure for a gambling based strategy, but this request seems foolproof (said the notable fool):
“The next ten roulette spins I wager on will land on black. You will take no other actions that will affect my life directly or indirectly.”
Freezing the universe is a change to the universe.
But if the genie does that anyway, it goes down with the ship, so booyah, genie.
Considering the number of people who secretly have reservations about having kids, the number of men who are really bad at making women orgasm, and the number of women who fake orgasm so as to not make the men feel bad, the average human birthrate falls far below that needed to make up for annual deaths, and the human population gradually dwindles towards zero.
That’s two wishes!
Yup! And this is me in a GOOD mood–welcome to the inside of MY head! 
I mean, people could bring the birth rate up but they’re gonna have to work at it and actually learn how to communicate well enough to be good coparents and if they can’t manage that then the human race bloody well deserves to die out.
Huh, maybe I should apply for that genie gig.
I think, strictly speaking, ginn are not human and do not even have real, material bodies as such, so you could not become a genie yourself. However, should you acquire miraculous powers the old fashioned way, through hard work, surely you could find a better gig than being enslaved to an old lamp for centuries.
Then again, to an incorporeal being, why would the inside of a finite space be an issue? Become the size of an atom and the inside of the lamp would be an entire world that could be decorated any way I like. Sounds pretty good, a whole world but no rent lol. I could have as many tiny animals in there as I liked and I’d magic up a good internet connection. Seems to me that OG djinni just have a problem with being told what to do.
As far as all the inhabitants of the universe are concerned, there was no change, because everything is still the same as it was when the wish was made and will never change. Evil genie cares nothing for harming himself, so long as the wisher is thwarted. Not only that, but the entire universe can blame the wisher for freezing them in place for all eternity, if they were aware that it happened. Evil genie might make it so just for a further FU.