Just by thinking casually, Tom came up with many possibilities.
For example, packaging true technological challenges into games or options, requiring the solution of maze-like problems; packaging war decisions into virtual combat games, then letting the captured intelligent lifeforms make choices, and then, through similar algorithms, the correct answers can be filtered out from multiple choices.
Intelligent lifeforms might not even know what they are doing, yet unknowingly contribute their wisdom, helping the intelligent AI system solve problems that it could not solve on its own and that could only be resolved by the wisdom of lifeforms.
Once this foundation was established, the existence of the so-called "Mechanical Disaster" that developed from this foundation also became rational.
It's just that...
