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Comment author: orthonormal 01 June 2009 07:03:15PM 1 point [-]

Ironically, a line from the original Terminator movie is a pretty good intuition pump for Powerful Optimization Processes:

It can't be bargained with. It can't be 'reasoned' with. It doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop, ever, until [it achieves its goal].