the "pick something usually better" sounds a lot like "and then draw the rest of the f*** owl"

Turned out that for a lot of things (not all things, Transformers have a lot of weaknesses), using a neural network to score an output is, if not "fine", then at least "ok".

Generating 10 options with mediocre mean and some standard deviation, and then evaluating which is best, is much easier than deliberative reasoning to just get one thing right in the first place more often.