What is "optimizers"

Usage examples of "optimizers".

One day, after a major meeting between the chief optimizers of the Precursors and the octospiders, it was announced that alt octospiders would become land creatures and give up their colonies in the oceans.

Most of the other optimizers objected when I requested that you be allowed to attend.

If the answer is no, then the octo places his or her sexuality in trust with the optimizers and the colony as a whole.

The optimizers are not lenient toward those who decide to undergo a sexual metamorphosis, without explicit colony permission, after their careers have been carefully structured and planned.

Others fear that the optimizers will place them in an improper career.

Why do the optimizers not simply decree that all the octospiders will always eat the barrican and remain sexless until the colony has a requirement for reproduction?

The optimizers do not approve many visitation requests to the alternate living areas that are farther south—in fact, for most octospiders, the only comprehensive view of the Alternate Domain that they ever have is the tour during the last week of Matriculation.

Third, and the sociological optimizers proved this controversial point many years ago—although for some number of years after mental quickness and learning ability start to drop, accumulated wisdom more than compensates—in terms of value to the colony, for the diminished brainpower, there comes a time in the life of every octospider when the sheer weight of his or her past experience makes any additional learning extremely difficult.

Even in a healthy octospider this phase of life, called the Onset of Limited Flexibility by our optimizers, signals a reduced ability to contribute to the colony.

The youngest optimizers are very zealous about tellirig the truth, without regard for the consequences.

Before I took the irreversible action, however, I consulted with those other optimizers whose opinions I most respected.

All optimizers participating in a decision to declare war, as well as all octospiders engaging in an armed conflict, are immediately terminated after the war.

Generations ago, some very wise optimizers realized that those individual octospiders who were engaged in killing, and the design of killing, were so psychologically altered by their experiences that they became a significant detriment to the operation of a peaceful colony.

He knows how optimizers work—and he knows how to keep them from touching his stuff.

He knows how optimizers work-and he knows how to keep them from touching his stuff.