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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.<ref>[http://patrissimo.livejournal.com/profile LiveJournal blog: Patrissimo]</ref> |
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.<ref>[http://patrissimo.livejournal.com/profile LiveJournal blog: Patrissimo]</ref> |
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Revision as of 01:53, 23 January 2009
Patri Friedman (born July 29, 1976 in Blacksburg, Virginia) is an anarchist advocate of 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]
The Seasteading Institute
Friedman is Executive Director of the Seasteading Institute, funded on April 15th, 2008 with a half-million-dollar investment by PayPal inventor Peter Thiel.[2] The Institute's mission is "to establish permanent, autonomous ocean communities to enable experimentation and innovation with diverse social, political, and legal systems"[3]. This was initially a part-time project - one day a week while working as a Google engineer the rest of the time[4] - but Friedman left Google on July 29th 2008 to spend more time on seasteading.[5] He and partner Wayne Gramlich hope to float the first prototype seastead in the San Francisco Bay within two years.[6][7]
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.[8]
Poker
Friedman often finishes in the money in major poker tournaments. His finishes in the money include:[9]
- 2008 WSOP $10,000 World Championship Event - 657th to collect $21,230
- 2008 WSOP $2,500 No Limit Hold'em - 24th to collect $17,351
- 2004 WSOP $10,000 World Championship Event - 165th to collect $15,000
- 2002 WSOP $2,000 No Limit Hold'em - 11th to collect $9,280
Family
Friedman is the grandson of economist Milton Friedman and son of economist David D. Friedman. He is married to Shannon Friedman and has one son.
References
- ^ Frucci, Adam. "How to Build Your Own Sea-Based Country for Fun and Profit," Gizmodo, 5-27-08
- ^ 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
- ^ Player results page, The Hendon Mob Poker Database
External links
- 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
- Distributed Republic blog: Patri Friedman
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