Being slightly irrational / slightly "crazy" - is actually a winning strategy for a group! This animation shows that slightly irrational beings (green - mainly follow the right hand rule but sometimes turn left randomly) investigate labyrinth faster than both fully irrational beings (red - turn randomly all the... time) and fully rational beings (blue - follow the right hand rule all the time). Here we go. Neither rationality nor irrationality work alone. Humans evolved fast and we have that irrational behaviour as part of us. We call it idea / eureka moment. Our own organism make us "turn" randomly so our species have a chance for progress..show more

in “why greatness cannot be planned”, stanley argued that randomness or irrationality is a behaviour in machine learning that tends to turn up extremely differentiated results which vary highly from its deterministic agents, so that too much planning (rationality) may not necessarily turn up desired results, but allowance for deviation or irrationality will surely turn up serendipitously great results—the best things we never expected

this isn't about rationality, you're just describing the exploitation/exploration trade-off

Exploration is irrational, exploitation is rational

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We think of mostly hardwired information machines like insect as been deterministic. But in reality, equipped with low resolution sensors, most of their behavior might consist of random walks, which would be more efficient at finding food than any predetermined algorithm.

Right. And we, humans, might “work” the same way.

This is kinda like when a person takes psychedelics, and they get some nonsense and some use out of it.

Eureka moments are natural version of the same thing..

exploration rate probably depends on the degree of loops in the maze. for certain types of mazes it might not help but maybe not for all.

Randomness always works I think ;)

More testosterone = more exploration