HungryHobo comments on Can noise have power? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: HungryHobo 23 May 2014 10:51:03AM 1 point [-]

Random methods are employed frequently because to do otherwise would require thought.

There is another more charitable possible justification, sometimes you're using such an approach to solve a problem you genuinely don't know how to solve yourself and clever tricks you use may unwittingly shut off valuable areas of the search space.