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Comment author: TheOtherDave 03 February 2013 07:03:50PM 1 point [-]

Sure, it will go ask the user too. And do various other things.
But it remains true that if it wants to be maximally confident that it has achieved its target state, at no time will it decide that maximal confidence has been achieved and shut down, because there will always be something that it can do to increase (if only by an increasingly small epsilon) its confidence.