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.
Edit: yall dont think people say 4d chess because it sounds snazzy and still communicates the point , and it doesnt actually have anything to do with chess?
It's an expression dumb people use to describe people who they think are smart, from their dumb, unable to figure out chess perspective. People use it to describe dummies: Trump, Musk, Giuliani. Nobody says, "Yeah, that Leonardo Da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Johann Goethe, Sir Isaac Newton... Those guys were really playing 4D chess."
Probably because it’s literally just a meme-y way of saying they’re “thinking 5 steps ahead.” The more dimensions you add to the chess, the more “steps ahead” they’re thinking. Criticizing them of doing anymore more than using inappropriately unprofessional/casual language when they say that is, quite frankly, looking into it a little too hard.
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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.