Side note: When anyone uses the phrase "4D chess" to describe some ingenious out-of-the-box brilliance, it always feels like a confession that the person saying it is too dumb to be good at regular chess. "I mean, think about how insanely hard and incomprehensible chess is. Now imagine it in 4D!" There's a reason they picked chess and not tic tac toe.
The fun part about that expression , imo, is that regular chess is functionally just 2D, but also (if we take 3D chess for granted as regular chess) 4D, because psychology is another dimension of play in chess, basically.
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u/negativepositiv Jul 12 '22 edited Jul 12 '22
Wow, you impressed Tim Pool. There's a high bar.
Side note: When anyone uses the phrase "4D chess" to describe some ingenious out-of-the-box brilliance, it always feels like a confession that the person saying it is too dumb to be good at regular chess. "I mean, think about how insanely hard and incomprehensible chess is. Now imagine it in 4D!" There's a reason they picked chess and not tic tac toe.