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CMV: In the classic scenario of a magical genie granting you three wishes, the optimal first wish is for a complete knowledge and thorough understanding of the Rules of Wishing whilst retaining your sanity and physical agency.

This came up in a conversation with some friends and family recently, and many of them used their wishes on material things (like a cowboy hat that looks good on them) or eternal life/youth.  When it came to me, and I specified this as my first wish, I was basically told it was a waste of a wish, and I'd be better off choosing something else.  My reasons are:

1) A complete knowledge and thorough understanding of the Rules puts you on a roughly even playing field with the genie.  This would allow a clever person to see loop-holes or places where deliberate mis-interpretations of their following two wishes could be exploited by a devious genie, and thus prevent most unwelcome outcomes. 

2) Similarly, it allows the Wisher to be aware of ways in which the Rules may be bent or broken to a desireable  end.

3)  I believe two wishes requested with the knowledge of the Rules would be more beneficial than 3 wishes requested without said knowledge and so, sacrificing one wish would be worth it. 

4)  This information would be useful if the genie was inherently good-natured, but would become absolutely critical if said genie was seeking to do the wisher harm.  Therefore, it is better to hedge your bets against the ancient wish-granting-entity, rather than be too trusting.
gpt
I think you're just getting too specific at this point, with the whole "whilst retaining your sanity" stuff.  

If you're going to get down to that level of detail for a wish, you might as well just say "I wish for infinite wishes, but in a way that doesn't adversely affect me in any way and addresses any loopholes that you might try to exploit."