While in college, according to Hoffman, he formed a conviction that he wanted to try to influence the state of the world on a large scale. in Philosophy from Wolfson College, Oxford in 1993 as a Marshall Scholar. in Symbolic Systems and Cognitive Science. He graduated from Stanford University in 1990, where he won both a Marshall Scholarship and a Dinkelspiel Award, with a B.S. Hoffman attended high school at The Putney School, where he farmed maple syrup, drove oxen and studied epistemology. Although he was only 14 years old at the time, Hoffman's name was featured on the box of Chaosium's RuneQuest role-playing game release Borderlands (1982), receiving equal billing with game designers Steve Perrin, Sandy Petersen and Greg Stafford. His first paid job (at age 12) was as an editor at the game company Chaosium, then based in Oakland near his home. Hoffman described himself an avid tabletop roleplaying gamer as a child. Hoffman's uncle Eric Hoffman is a writer. His paternal great-great-great-grandfather was Theophilus Adam Wylie, a Christian Presbyterian minister and Indiana University president pro tempore.
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