# Adjacent Possible Precisely thinking about the adjacent possible is hard. It is easy to miss the prerequisites on an innovation which put it in the adjacent-adjacent possible or farther. It may not be possible to know whether something is truly in the adjacent possible without trying to put it into the possible. Most AI predictions are bullshit. ## Reference Originally from [[Stuart Kauffman]] in [[Investigations (Book)]] <!-- #mental-model --> [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Adjacent+Possible) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Adjacent+Possible)