Remember that movie... War Games? About a young hacker who unwittingly accesses WOPR (War Operation Plan Response), a United States military supercomputer originally programmed to predict possible outcomes of nuclear war. He gets WOPR to run a nuclear war simulation, originally believing it to be a computer game. The computer, now tied into the nuclear weapons control system and unable to tell the difference between simulation and reality, attempts to start World War III. They deactivate the computer by telling it to play itself tic-tac-toe in the background. After many iterations the computer comes to the realization/conclusion that the only way to win is to not play at all and stops the madness. They thus avoid WWIII.

Are you getting my drift ;)