…modern era, broadly speaking, when we talk about collectivism and Rupert mentioned by chance this morning this name is that of Thomas Hobbes, the great theoretician of social paranoia. That is always how I've thought of Hobbes until I began to look at this…

…this morning this name is that of Thomas Hobbes, the great theoretician of social paranoia. That is always how I've thought of Hobbes until I began to look at this machine intelligence question and Hobbes in his leviathan makes it very clear that society…

…social paranoia. That is always how I've thought of Hobbes until I began to look at this machine intelligence question and Hobbes in his leviathan makes it very clear that society is a complex system of mechanical feedback loops and relationships that…

…Hobbes in his leviathan makes it very clear that society is a complex system of mechanical feedback loops and relationships that though Hobbes did not have the vocabulary to state this relationships that can be defined by code. This leads me to the second…

…No, this persists right up until, well, to this moment. But, for instance, the quote I always love is from Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan. Thomas Hobbes, you know, was the great theoretician of modern government and social organization. And he was basically a…

…right up until, well, to this moment. But, for instance, the quote I always love is from Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan. Thomas Hobbes, you know, was the great theoretician of modern government and social organization. And he was basically a paranoid sob. And…

…after the cromwellian revolution was disposed of and Newton published the principia in England, people like John Locke and Hume and Thomas Hobbes and began to work out the social implications of all this. While Newton and Leibniz and other people on the…

…We took this from the Greeks. We perfected it through the Romans. We brought up, through the medieval period, John Locke and Thomas Hobbes, and all those folks fixed it up for us in the 18th century. Thomas Jefferson ironed out the wrinkles. And modern…