There is an intimate link between determinism/indeterminism, optimism/pessimism and local/global maxima, ectropy/entropy. Optimism is fundamentally a belief th

There is an intimate link between determinism/indeterminism, optimism/pessimism and local/global maxima, ectropy/entropy. Optimism is fundamentally a belief that we are not currently at a local/global maxima. Determinism is a belief that the path to local/global maxima is knowable through human intelligence. This is why A/B testing, as pointed out in the article, is fundamentally incapable of leading to anything other than a local maxima. It is optimistic, but without determinism, it will never sacrifice traversal through local minima to achieve a greater maxima. This is personally why I have such a reaction of disgust to "ideas are worthless" and "nobody knows anything until you build it," because I am adamantly optimistic deterministic at heart and do believe in design, increasing ectropy, and vision. A side effect of this is that in our pessimistic indeterminate societal POV you are characterized with delusions of grandeur until you prove out your vision. Even then though, you may be discounted as lucky.