Unexamined here is the idea of, how many "rogue bees" do we need? Obviously if all bees were "rogue", then the hive starves, because when one bee finds food no

Unexamined here is the idea of, how many "rogue bees" do we need? Obviously if all bees were "rogue", then the hive starves, because when one bee finds food none of the others will learn from them. Even half of the bees going rogue probably dramatically reduces the hives fitness. There's a problem space in statistics (later adopted by ML) called the "Multi-armed Bandit problem", which examines this tradeoff in detail. It can get rather complex. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit