Patri Friedman Concepts

Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity From Politicians

by Joe Quirk and Patri Friedman · 21 Mar 2017 · 441pp · 113,244 words

, almost limitless energy, and nearly half the Earth’s surface? See the Sea The globally emerging Blue Revolution became conscious of itself when Google engineer Patri Friedman realized that the economic theories elucidated by his grandfather, Milton Friedman, and developed by his father, David Friedman, would soon be put to the test

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efficiency with which businesses transact all over the world. Coauthor Joe Quirk’s wife pays vendors through PayPal for her business every week, and coauthor Patri Friedman collects rent through it every month. While the 2000 dot-com bubble crashed around him, Peter led the company until it was acquired in 2002

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single person who builds or propagates the machinery of freedom that makes the world safe for capitalism. “For this reason, all of us must wish Patri Friedman the very best in his extraordinary experiment.” The time from Orville Wright’s first twelve-second airplane flight in 1903 to Neil Armstrong’s happy

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idea of seasteading: that would be a very nice way to bypass this regulation zone.” Seasteading? Joe asked Karina if she’s ever heard of Patri Friedman. “Friedman? The last name does ring a bell a little bit, but I don’t associate it with anything right now.” Yet she expounds thusly

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making with multiple actors (governance). Floating cities offer an opportunity to take this development a step further.” Has Rutger heard of Patri Friedman? Rutger strains to remember. “I read about Patri Friedman in the Economist Science Technology section. Was it published this year?” Joe had to finally break down and tell them about all

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decrease the acidity of the ocean; Patrick Takahashi pitches ocean thermal energy conversion as an energy source and calls his effort the Blue Revolution; and Patri Friedman talks about how rearrangeability of floating buildings will create a peaceful market of competitive governance. By the way, the word they use, seasteading, is a

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coleads a team working to establish the first seastead with unprecedented political autonomy in the waters of a host nation. He lives in Oakland, California. PATRI FRIEDMAN founded The Seasteading Institute in 2008 with seed funding from PayPal founder Peter Thiel. He also founded the annual Ephemerisle floating festival. Friedman, the grandson

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. Visit the authors at www.seasteading.org MEET THE AUTHORS, WATCH VIDEOS AND MORE AT SimonandSchuster.com Authors.SimonandSchuster.com/Joe-Quirk Authors.SimonandSchuster.com/Patri-Friedman ALSO BY JOE QUIRK Exult Call to the Rescue: The Story of the Marine Mammal Center It’s Not You, It’s Biology: The Science

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/publication/jeremy-grantham-starving-for-facts. human creativity: Julian Simon, The Ultimate Resource (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press), 1981. a machinery of freedom to choose: Patri Friedman, “Dynamic Geography: A Blueprint for Efficient Government,” accessed from the website of the Seasteading Institute, n.d., http://seasteading.org/seastead.org/new_pages/dynamic

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– author. Title: Seasteading : how floating nations will restore the environment, enrich the poor, cure the sick, and liberate humanity from politicians / by Joe Quirk with Patri Friedman. Description: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016022049 | ISBN 9781451699265 (alk. paper) | ISBN 1451699263 (alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Artificial

Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

by Quinn Slobodian · 4 Apr 2023 · 360pp · 107,124 words

what he dubbed a “Cambrian Explosion in government.”4 In the jargon of Silicon Valley, these would be start-up nations. The man onstage was Patri Friedman. He had a famous grandfather, perhaps the century’s most notorious economist, both lionized and reviled for his role in offering intellectual scaffolding for ever

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real-world outcomes. They invite us to speculate but to do so concretely—to play for real. An example of this was David’s son, Patri Friedman—named after his father’s fellow creative anachronist, a Harvard history of science PhD who went by the name Patri du Chat Gris. Patri attended

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from the self-described neo-reactionary and tech worker Curtis Yarvin, who blogged under the pseudonym Mencius Moldbug and moved in the same circles as Patri Friedman and Peter Thiel.16 Along with Singapore and Hong Kong, Dubai proved to Yarvin that “politics is not necessary to a free, stable and productive

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and recolonizing territory was weakening. Why shouldn’t private citizens get in on the act of government, the most lucrative line of business yet created? Patri Friedman pointed out that government services accounted for 30 percent of global GDP. “People talk about disrupting medicine or energy or education,” Friedman said. “Those are

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Brimen, referred to his métier as “countrypreneurship,” and started a venture capital fund offering seed capital for creating new societies “from scratch.”49 Working with Patri Friedman, Brimen broke ground in May 2021 on a fifty-eight-acre zone on the island of Roatán, off the north coast of Honduras, with $17

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.html. 38. Deist, “Soft Secession in America.” 39. Hari Kunzru, Red Pill (New York: Knopf, 2020), 226. CHAPTER 1: TWO, THREE, MANY HONG KONGS 1. Patri Friedman, “TSI Strategy & Status: The Future” (speech), Seasteading Institute Conference, September 29, 2009, San Francisco, CA, video, 26:42, https://vimeo.com/8354001. 2

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. Patri Friedman, “Beyond Folk Activism,” Cato Unbound, April 6, 2009, https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/06/patri-friedman/beyond-folk-activism. 3. Patri Friedman and Brad Taylor, “Seasteading: Competitive Governments on the Ocean,” Kyklos 65 (May 2012): 225. 4

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Failed, 291. 61. David Friedman, “Concerning a Dream,” Tournaments Illuminated, no. 42 (1977), http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/miscellany_pdf/Articles_about_Persona.pdf. 62. Patri Friedman, “Ephemerisle,” Seasteading Institute Conference, September 29, 2009, San Francisco, CA, video, 31:46, https://vimeo.com/10912197. 63. Philip E. Steinberg, Elizabeth Nyman, and Mauro

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: Colonialism for the 21st Century,” Unqualified Reservations, August 20, 2009, https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2009/08/from-cromer-to-romer-and-back-again/. 41. Patri Friedman, “Theory: Competitive Government, Practice: Seasteading,” The Future of Free Cities, April 4, 2011, https://newmedia.ufm.edu/coleccion/the-future-of-free-cities/theory-of

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related story line links the web to Burning Man, the gathering in the desert where a makeshift city emerged once a year. Paul Romer and Patri Friedman both promoted the idea that their start-up societies were extensions of the spirit of Burning Man. Craib, Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit

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The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power

by Max Chafkin · 14 Sep 2021 · 524pp · 130,909 words

the role of provocateur. At Stanford, Thiel had gravitated toward younger right-wing intellectuals and he did so again, beginning with a Google engineer named Patri Friedman. Small, sinewy, and handsome, Friedman had a master’s degree in computer science from Stanford, which he was putting to work writing quality control software

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?” host Mike Pesca asked. Gawker mocked Freidman relentlessly, mining his confessional blog and social media stream for the most ridiculous bits of inanity. libertarian utopianist patri friedman wants to be your baby’s daddy was one headline in reference to his polyamory. Clarium employees expected Thiel to be horrified by the attention

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Barney Pell’s company, when both had apparently served their purpose, he eventually backed away from the Seasteading Institute, the freedom-loving nonprofit founded by Patri Friedman that Thiel had used to burnish his image as an intellectual radical. In 2011, he left the board of the foundation. He told Friedman that

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gotten rejected. And of course, there was social media: For someone who hated the medium, Thiel associated with lots of people, like Michael Gibson and Patri Friedman, who used it constantly to promote his ideas, in blog posts and on Twitter. The message, always, was simple: College and traditional careerism was pointless

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destructive system of government.” Thiel’s comments about the incompatibility of democracy and freedom in Cato Unbound would closely hew to Yarvin’s view, and Patri Friedman would recommend Unqualified Reservations in a companion piece in the same issue. During his Stanford lectures, Thiel would rail against democratic decision making inside of

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,” Valleywag, November 14, 2008, https://gawker.com/5083655/billionaire-facebook-investors-anti-immigrant-heresy. start new ones: Patri Friedman, “Beyond Folk Activism,” Cato Unbound, April 6, 2009, https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/06/patri-friedman/beyond-folk-activism. calibrated to cause a reaction: Peter Thiel, “The Education of a Libertarian,” Cato Unbound

The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World

by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian · 7 Oct 2024 · 336pp · 104,899 words

reports, did not seem wild about the prospect. And the people involved seemed, to me at least, to have their heads in the clouds. Take Patri Friedman, who was responsible for popularizing charter cities in the Bay Area and has raised money from tech founders and venture capitalists. I first spoke to

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retreats, cryptocurrency confabs, and a conference on experimental ways to achieve longevity (having solved the problem of taxes, the only thing left, apparently, is death). Patri Friedman flew down to receive injections of follistatin, a novel form of gene therapy, yet to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

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phone calls and Zooms, and during in-person interviews around the world. I’m particularly grateful to Joseph McKinney, Thibault Serlet, Katarina Serlet, Joe Quirk, Patri Friedman, Michael Strong, Randy Hencken, Kurtis Lockhart, Mark Lutter, the Charter Cities Institute, Gustavo Lacerda, Michael Castle-Miller, Jorge Colindres, William O’Shea, Joel Burke, Nick

Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley

by Corey Pein · 23 Apr 2018 · 282pp · 81,873 words

and seemingly antisocial movement would even establish a beachhead in the White House. An early sign of the mainstreaming of this esoteric school came from Patri Friedman, a grandson of the famed economist Milton Friedman. In early 2014, the young, libertine free market scion praised Moldbug for inspiring “an entire school of

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’ve written.” * * * The rise of the neoreactionaries was not exclusively a coup orchestrated from above with the help of powerful, well-connected hyperlibertarians like Thiel, Patri Friedman, and Trump’s campaign financier, the tech billionaire Robert Mercer. It was also a movement from below, embraced by thousands—and eventually perhaps by millions

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at the Thiel-funded, Mountain View–based SENS Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization also dedicated to the quixotic cause of achieving human immortality. Yarvin booster Patri Friedman led an organization called the Seasteading Institute, which was also funded by Thiel, with the outlandish goal of building privately owned countries on large offshore

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The Smartphone Society

by Nicole Aschoff

sovereignty where we gather.”25 Peter Thiel shares Zuckerberg’s and Barlow’s desire for autonomy and space to build new Utopias. He’s bankrolling Patri Friedman’s Seasteading Institute, whose aim is to build floating cities similar to oil rigs that would be anchored in international waters and so be free

The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen

by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian · 14 Jul 2015 · 138pp · 41,353 words

technically international territory, little prevents wannabe nation-builders from establishing their own territories in this no-man’s land, if they can physically hack it. Patri Friedman, the grandson of economist Milton Friedman, runs the organization, and in doing so effectively takes the elder Friedman’s radical free-market philosophy to its

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his estate lies . . . the proprietor of stock is properly a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.’” Roger Ver, Patri Friedman, and Eduardo Saverin have this in common: They chose to opt out. The “financialization” of citizenship isn’t just a problem for traditionalists like Huntington

The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You

by Eli Pariser · 11 May 2011 · 274pp · 75,846 words

that there are few with views as unusual as Thiel’s. “Peter wants to end the inevitability of death and taxes,” Thiel’s sometime collaborator Patri Friedman (grandson of Milton) told Wired. “I mean, talk about aiming high!” In an essay posted on the libertarian Cato Institute’s Web site, Thiel describes

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Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

by Jacob Silverman · 9 Oct 2025 · 312pp · 103,645 words

from Sam Altman, Marc Andreessen, Balaji Srinivasan, Peter Thiel, and other prominent investors.10 They also obtained funding from Pronomos, a financial firm headed by Patri Friedman, the grandson of conservative economist Milton Friedman, whose ideas helped underwrite the economic policies of various right-wing Latin American dictatorships. The same men invested

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from investors including Srinivasan, Joe Lonsdale, the Winklevoss twins, and Pronomos.12 Thiel’s line about “the machinery of freedom” was written in support of Patri Friedman, the Pronomos chief whose seasteading project—building floating city-states on the open ocean—counted Thiel as an investor. By 2022, Honduran politics had shifted

The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

by George Packer · 4 Mar 2014 · 559pp · 169,094 words

available to transform the human body. He was the largest patron and a board member of the Seasteading Institute, a libertarian nonprofit group founded by Patri Friedman, a former Google engineer and Milton Friedman’s grandson. “Seasteading” referred to the founding of new city-states on floating platforms in international waters—communities

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and the Methods of Rationality, which recast the original story in an attempt to explain Harry’s wizardry through the scientific method. And there was Patri Friedman, the founder of the Seasteading Institute. An elfin man with cropped black hair and a thin line of beard, he was dressed in the eccentrically