Patri Friedman
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Patri Friedman (born July 29, 1976 in Blacksburg, Virginia) is an activist and theorist of political economy, former software engineer, and poker player. He advocates rapid, incremental progress towards increasing human freedom by creating new countries that can experiment with alternative social structures. His preferred method is seasteading, to construct and inhabit floating communities on the open sea: "The point is not just to create one political system or type of system, but to make a turnkey product for creating new countries, so that lots of different groups will try lots of different things, and we can all learn from it."[1] Friedman is also on the board of transhumanist organization Humanity+. [2]
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[edit] The Seasteading Institute
Friedman is Executive Director of the Seasteading Institute, funded on April 15, 2008 with a half-million-dollar investment by PayPal inventor Peter Thiel.[3] The Institute's mission is "to establish permanent, autonomous ocean communities to enable experimentation and innovation with diverse social, political, and legal systems"[4]. This was initially a part-time project - one day a week while working as a Google engineer the rest of the time[5] - but Friedman left Google on July 29, 2008 to spend more time on seasteading.[6] He and partner Wayne Gramlich hope to float the first prototype seastead in the San Francisco Bay within two years.[7][8]
[edit] Personal history
Friedman grew up in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and is a graduate of Upper Merion Area High School, class of 1994, where he went by the name Patri Forwalter-Friedman. He graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 1998.[9] He also participates in poker tournaments, and has cashed in the World Series of Poker four times. [10].
[edit] Family
Patri is the grandson of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman and economist Rose Friedman and son of economist David D. Friedman. He is married to Shannon Friedman and has one son.
[edit] References
- ^ Frucci, Adam. "How to Build Your Own Sea-Based Country for Fun and Profit," Gizmodo, 5-27-08
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- ^ Mangu-Ward, Katherine. "Homesteading on the High Seas", Reason, 4-28-08
- ^ Madrigal, Alexis. "Peter Thiel Makes Down Payment on Libertarian Ocean Colonies" Wired, 5-19-08
- ^ Hastings, Sean. "Patri Friedman Interview", Sexiest Geeks Alive, 6-7-08
- ^ Friedman, Patri. "More Time For Seasteading",Seasteading Institute: Captains Blog, 7-3-08
- ^ Frucci, Adam. "Silicon Valley Nerds Plan Sea-Based Utopian Country to Call Their Own", Gizmodo, 5-20-08
- ^ Park, Bryant. "Libertarian Island: No Rules, Just Rich Dudes", National Public Radio, 5-21-08
- ^ LiveJournal blog: Patrissimo
- ^ http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=12929
[edit] External links
- Distributed Republic blog: Patri Friedman
- A Thousand Nations, blog about competitive government by Friedman, Jonathan Wilde, Mike Gibson, Will Chamberlain, and Michael Strong
- PUA 4 LTR, a blog Friedman started in November 2009 applying Pickup_artist skills (PUA) to Intimate_relationships (Long-Term Relationships or LTRs)
- Articles
- "The Next Frontier: 'Seasteading' the Oceans" CNet, 2-2-09
- "Live Free or Drown" Wired, 1-19-09
- Russ Roberts interview: "Patri Friedman on Seasteading", EconTalk, 10-13-08
- "Patri Friedman & Seasteading Interview", PodCrash, 8-03-08
- Podcast interview: "WS Radio: Patri Friedman Audio", Western Standard, 6-19-08
- Lee, Timothy B. "Seasteading: Engineering the Long Tail of Nations", ArsTechnica, 6-9-2008
- Anissimov, Michael. "Seasteading Institute Interview w/ Patri Friedman", Accelerating Future, 5-14-08
