# Inadequate Equilibria  ## Metadata - Author: [[Eliezer Yudkowsky]] - Full Title: Inadequate Equilibria - Category: #books ## Highlights - This may sound less stupid if you consider that I was accustomed to writing many things, most of which never worked or accomplished anything, and a very few of which people paid attention to and mentioned later, and that it had taken me years of writing practice to get even that far. ([Location 1948](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B076Z64CPG&location=1948)) - In the book Superforecasting, Philip Tetlock describes the number one characteristic of top forecasters, who show the ability to persistently outperform professional analysts and even small prediction markets: they believe that outperformance in forecasting is possible, and work to improve their performance.2 ([Location 2190](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B076Z64CPG&location=2190))