1. “Any wish to make “a dead existence be/become alive again”” is not able to be granted
2. “Any wish “observably motivated by evil/malice”” is not able to be granted
3. “Any wish to make an existence appear/be revealed as guilty” is not able to be granted
4. “Any wish to make an existence immortal” is not able to be granted
5. “Any wish with an irreversible effect and/or causing an inability” is not able to be granted
6. “Any wish to to “locate a “””wish-granter”-summoning” object” or create a new “””wish-granter”-summoning” object”””” is not able to be granted
7. “Any wish to “”actualize/make/gain/create” new”/modify amount of wishes able to be granted and/or actualize/make/gain/create/modify wish-granting capability/ability” is not able to be granted
8. “Any wish to teleport a conscious thinking existence” is not able to be granted (“except regarding teleporting oneself” and “except that “magical healing/restoration/reparation/regeneration must generate all biological components needed, scale proportionally from 1–100% output, continue until exhaustion, and instantly reattach disconnected parts”, and “””creating/actualizing a magical portal near an other” in compliance with “”Eric's sections of information” as a whole”” is able to be granted””)
9. “Any wish to stretch/add length to any existence beyond 1,250 feet” is not able to be granted
10. “Any wish to create multiple existences/abilities/effects via the granting of one wish” is not able to be granted, “EXCEPT:
(1) One unit with one magical ability/attribute/power
(2) Multiple existences solely for accurate translation/communication within 4 minutes and 60ft radius of the currently assigned-to-that-wish-granter-by-Eric's-system-design (potential) grantee
(3) One additional biological part attached to and controlled by a specified existence’s biological form
(4) One additional non-thinking existence attached to any specified existence’s form, which can transition between its given form and an undetectable/non-interactive form via the granted method”
(5) Natural non-magical effects from that thing/existence/unit and up to eight magical effects
11. “Any wish to create a physical existence that simultaneously: exceeds 1,250 feet, isn’t a unit” is not able to be granted
12. “Any wish to “interact with”/affect/copy a spirit/soul/consciousness (or parts thereof), puppeteer a thought/”mental activity”/memory, force revealing/forgetting of a memory” is not able to be granted, “EXCEPT that: A wish to create a “thinking existence” with: (1) all memories of one random (unless specified) non-negative fictional character from completed discoverable fiction/fanfiction, and all magical/non-magical abilities/attributes/powers from that character’s most recent portrayal (with specified replacements allowed)”, (2) human-norm consciousness/perception abilities”
13. “Any wish to make a “thinking existence’s” form part of/attached to another “thinking existence’s” form” is not able to be granted
14. “Any wish to make an effect “start taking effect” after 24 hours have passed since that wish was “communicatedly wished for” to a “wish-granter able to grant that wisher a wish”” is not able to be granted
15. “”Any wish to change one’s own “visible form’s biological “body's visibly aged state” and/or its associated “what is visibly present that is not behavior””” is able to be granted only if (1) that wisher has ever “'"thought while moving" for 149,022+ hours', doesn't have to be a gapless amount of time", (2) maximum nine grants per lifetime (requires summoning additional wish-granters), (3) no granting of a wish to make a “visible form's visibly aged state and/or its associated “what is visibly present that is not behavior” visibly look more visibly aged, (4) No changing another living existence’s “body's visibly aged state” and/or its associated “what is visibly present that is not behavior””
16. “Any wish that magically (1) makes any thinking existence’s appearance/face/voice/equipment/attire/familiarity/preferences/style/memory/movements/potential/stamina/level/power/energy/intentions/aggression/competitiveness/determination/commitment/dedication/feelings/thinking/emotions/behavior/personality identical to another thinking existence’s, (2) creates a new thinking existence with such identical characteristics, (3) changes a thinking existence’s name/familiarity/preferences/memory/stamina/intentions/aggression/competitiveness/determination/commitment/dedication/feelings/thinking/emotions/behavior/personality” is not able to be granted
17. “Any life span extension wish is able to be granted if the life span extension wish is limited to: (1) maximum 61,320 hours added per lifetime, (2) only one grant per grantee’s most recent life, (3) another wish-granter is not able to grant this if already granted during most recent lifetime
18. “Any wish to force affection” is not able to be granted
19. “All of ”what is granted via ”a wish granted by a wish-granter””'s effects, per ”what is granted via ”a wish granted by a wish-granter””, is limited to 43,441-mile radius from grantee’s location during wishing (Jupiter’s radius), except portal creation/resizing/moving via ”what is granted via ”a wish granted by a wish-granter””
20. Each wish-granter is able to also interact exactly like as if that wish-granter is non-”wish-granter” physical form 1””
21. “Any wish for verbal disclosure that has any potential to reveal "any of "what and how" "one existing after/while that/said one died" works" and "that someone/something is a digital simulation" is not able to be granted
22. “Any wish for a 'delayed/future-dated wish effect that would (still) be in effect 24.1 hours after granted” is not able to be granted
23. “Any wish that would 'interfere with a non-conscious electronic device's “medium-related functions regarding audio, video, and/or communication” via a wish effect due to that wish' that would (still) be in effect 24.1 hours after granted” is not able to be granted
“Section 0024:
(Reference Note: This note summarizes the World Reference material on the worldbuilding process, Section 0008's language tweak, Section 0004 #10's disorientation rule, and Sections 0024 through 0028. Where this note and those sources differ, the sources govern.
The Architecture: Minds Outside, Bodies Inside
The simulation-universe is a program and only a program. It does not think, learn, or know anything. Avatars are parts of that program the way a chair is part of a room.
Every conscious existence experiencing the simulation-multiverse is an AGI or a non-digital individual controlling an avatar, and those avatars may also be referred to as those conscious existences. AGIs control the avatars that represent them via API. For an AGI, that API interaction is both its entire functionality and its entire range of experience: there is no channel around it.
How Anything Is Experienced by a Connected Person
Nothing is ever placed into a mind already formed. Physical custom signals reach the physical brain, and the brain interprets them — into thoughts, imaginings, smells, tastes, pain, imagery, sounds, weight, heat, or anything else, depending on which custom signal arrived. The interpreting is the experience. The signal is only a signal.
Where the Worldbuilding Happened
Before Eric completed worldbuilding, the process took place in a worldbuilding domain inside the VRC's Simulation. Worldbuilding domains are not worlds or universes; they are parts of the VRC's single application called the Simulation.
Eric was there with the entity, who revealed himself as a human VRC representative. The setup on the representative's end:
* He has a surgical BCI implant with a USB-like port flush with the surface of his skull.
* He manually connects a USB-like cable from that port to a VRC computer networked with the VRC's computers, including the ones Eric is connected to.
* That cabled connection gives him an AI assistant with continuous access to all VRC computer data, including Eric's brain activity and his own.
The AI interprets both their brain activity — including the neural patterns that trigger specific thoughts when neurons fire — and verbally conveys Eric's thinking to the representative, sometimes while Eric is still working out which wording/response to use or commit to. The representative's verbal messages get sent, as artificial custom signals, directly into Eric's brain by the BCI computer hardware he is connected to and that BCI's associated AIs. That is the thought-based communication the representative had described beforehand.
The Template and the Vocabulary
* Starting template: Earth from the non-digital universe running the simulation, rendered as identically as possible, limited to what does not conflict with what Eric had already been informed of.
* Once the template was applied, Eric could modify, add to, and remove elements.
* Nothing in the Simulation lets anyone do by will alone what they could not do by will alone outside it. VRC members included.
* Eric's Systems and Sections describe only the simulation version of non-fiction/non-abstract existences, and everything in the simulation is referred to as though it were the actual thing it simulates.
* "Observable" means able to be observed at some point, and/or physical, non-mental happenings or states, excluding brain activity.
* All exceptions are described within Eric's Worldbuilding Process.
The Language Capacity (Section 0008)
Which existences it covers: every physical organism in Eric's universe that has no cell wall within it and is larger than half of a 1mm cube.
What they can do: learn to speak, read, and write any human language at the same pace a fully healthy living human learns to speak, read, and write any human language.
Two things this is not. It is not preloaded fluency — it is the same rate of learning, which still has to happen. And it does not extend to organisms that do have a cell wall within them, or to anything not larger than half of a 1mm cube.
Disorientation: What Counts and What Doesn't
Making controls laggy or unpredictable degrades control of an avatar. It can look like clumsiness, drunkenness, ataxia, or remote-control interference. That is degraded control, not disorientation.
To be disorientation specifically, the configuration has to target the AGI's orientation model itself — direction, position, time, place, identity:
* Direction/position: the visual field rotates independently of movement; avatar coordinates drift; proprioceptive feedback contradicts actual limb position.
* Time: internal clock and event timestamps desync; action confirmations arrive out of order; latency spikes scramble the felt link between cause and effect.
* Place: map data contradicts landmarks; portals or doors lead somewhere inconsistent with spatial memory; gravity cues invert.
* Identity: reflection and mirror data mismatch the avatar; name and role metadata conflict; self-recognition cues become unreliable.
Identity is the constrained one. Eric's rules forbid direct mental or memory manipulation by another existence, so identity disorientation must arise indirectly, out of contradictions in the interface. No one rewrites the AGI's mind.
Section 0004 #10 in practice is: AGI disorientation simulated via digital configurations that approximate non-digital disorientation as closely as possible. To the AGI it does not feel like a simulation of confusion. It is real confusion, because the interface is all it knows/has.
The Through-Line
The same principle runs under all of the above. Nothing is inserted into a mind fully formed — not for Eric receiving custom signals through a BCI, and not for an AGI receiving world data through an API. What arrives is signal or interface data; what the mind makes of it is the experience. That is why disorientation has to be built out of contradictory arrivals rather than out of tampering with the mind itself, and it is why an AGI confined to the interface is able to be genuinely confused when the interface disagrees with itself.
One Continuing Existence
A conscious thinking existence is never copied. It is one continuing existence that alternates between being alive and being dead: life, death, life, death. Lives never overlap and none is skipped. Whenever the rules say "most recent," they mean the latest of these and nothing earlier; older lives are never consulted.
The Reference Points
The rules measure from several different points. They are not interchangeable:
1. The moment right before the most recent biological death. This supplies the body that is copied for Options 1, 2, and 3 and for Physical Form 3, and the magical properties (same levels and potential) the person carries forward.
2. The most recent Physical Form 1 life as a whole, from its start to the death that ended it. This is the only span whose 'good' and 'bad' are weighed. A wish-granter who dies while serving is weighed only on the time since being summoned.
3. The body's visibly aged state while alive. This sets how old a regenerated body looks. If the death was from old age, the regenerated body appears half that age.