The truth, Keltham has already deduced, is that Wish wordings often seem to be interpreted in a deliberately perverse way, as if some anti-genie were trying to minimize the caster's utility function subject to the constaint of the words spoken.  One can deduce that truth in some detail; there are cases where Wishes did, not harm in general, but something the caster particularly wouldn't have wanted.

You can maybe conjure an exact mass of an exact kind of antimatter in an exact place—if you use Wish-words carefully enough, for the length of the wording is also a conserved resource.

But if it were something more complicated than that, which an antimatter blast alone might not accomplish, you would obviously want to...

And INT 29 Keltham carefully filters which true sources of evidence Carissa Sevar receives to examine, which legends, which accounts.

The truth, Keltham has already deduced, is that Wish wordings often seem to be interpreted in a deliberately perverse way, as if some anti-genie were trying to minimize the caster's utility function subject to the constraint of the words spoken.  One can deduce that truth in some detail; there are cases where Wishes did, not harm in general, but something the caster particularly wouldn't have wanted.

You can maybe conjure an exact mass of an exact kind of antimatter in an exact place—if you use Wish-words carefully enough, for the length of the wording is also a conserved resource.

But if it were something more complicated than that, which an antimatter blast alone might not accomplish, you would obviously want to...

And INT 29 Keltham carefully filters which true sources of evidence Carissa Sevar receives to examine, which legends, which accounts.