Comment by keepamovin

Sure, but hard to argue there's not some advantage as well, even to traits that operate unadaptively in some situations, so evolution likely played a role.

More important that evolutionary argument is we all know how increasing the noise unfurls the decision tree into more possibilities, which seems undeniably adaptive by fanning out the search space.

You have to consdier the en masse effect, not just the obvious, "in this 1 instance it was bad." Overall, a mode where you switch to a wider search strategy (like turning up the heat in an LLM) can be what you need...to procreate (eventually) hahaha! :)