Patri Friedman

Patri Friedman (born July 29, 1976) is an American libertarian, anarcho-capitalist,[1] and theorist of political economy.[2] He founded the nonprofit Seasteading Institute, which explores the creation of sovereign ocean colonies.[3][4][5]

Patri Friedman
Patri Friedman of the Seasteading Institute in Helsinki on May 13, 2011.
Born (1976-07-29) July 29, 1976
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvey Mudd College
Stanford University
New York Institute of Technology
OccupationActivist and political theorist
Spouse(s)Brit Benjamin
Children3
RelativesMilton Friedman (grandfather)
Rose Friedman (grandmother)
David D. Friedman (father)
Websitepatrifriedman.com

Early life

Named after family friend Patri Pugliese[6], 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, and went on to Stanford University to obtain his master's degree in computer science. He also holds an MBA from New York Institute of Technology – Ellis College.[7] He worked as a software engineer at Google.[8][9] As a poker player, he cashed in the World Series of Poker four times.[10]

The Seasteading Institute
Main article: Seasteading § The Seasteading Institute

Friedman was executive director of the Seasteading Institute, founded in 2008, with a half-million-dollar donation from venture capitalist Peter Thiel.[11] The Institute's mission is "to establish permanent, autonomous ocean communities to enable experimentation and innovation with diverse social, political, and legal systems".[12][13] This was initially a part-time project — one day a week while working as a Google engineer the rest of the time[8] — but Friedman left Google on July 29, 2008 to spend more time on seasteading.[14] He and partner Wayne Gramlich hoped to float the first prototype seastead in the San Francisco Bay by 2010.[15][16] At the October 2010 Seasteading social, it was announced that current plans were to launch a seastead by 2014.[17]

Since attending the Burning Man festival in 2000, Friedman imagined creating a water festival called Ephemerisle as a Seasteading experiment and Temporary Autonomous Zone. Through the Seasteading Institute, Friedman was able to start the Ephemerisle festival in 2009, aided by TSI's James Hogan as event organizer and Chicken John Rinaldi as chief builder. The first Ephemerisle is chronicled in a documentary by Jason Sussberg.[18] Since 2010, the event has been annual and community-run.

Future Cities Development

On July 31, 2011, Friedman stepped down from the position as Executive Director of Seasteading Institute, but remained chairman of the board.[19] Later, he co-founded the Future Cities Development Corporation, a project to establish a self-governing charter city within the borders of Honduras.[20][21] In 2012, the Future Cities Development Corporation ceased operations.[22]

Pronomos Capital

In 2019, Friedman founded Pronomos Capital, a venture capital firm whose purpose is to bankroll the construction of experimental cities on vacant tracts of land in developing countries. Like the Seasteading Institute, Pronomos Capital is backed by Peter Thiel. Most of the cities will be aimed at foreign businesses seeking friendlier tax treatment.[23]

Alleged neoreactionary views

According to Corey Pein, "Friedman wanted to improve the image of neoreaction by using TV-ready, buzzword-laden euphemisms like 'competitive governance' rather than referring directly to the Moldbuggian ideal of corporate dictatorship. In a Facebook post, he called for 'a more politically correct' neoreactionary movement with room for women and nonwhites, in what appeared to be an effort to cover toxic ideas with the veneer of tolerance and the language of campus liberalism." In 2014, Friedman praised neoreactionary Curtis Yarvin for inspiring "an entire school of red pill political philosophy."[24][25].

Poker career

During his poker career, Patri Freidman was predicted to become a world champion by Card Player Magazine.[26] However, he has not won a poker Championship as of 2019. He claims to have created AI bots for online poker.[27]

Year World Series of Poker Tournament Place Prize
2002 $2,000 No Limit Hold'em 11th $9,280
2004 $10,000 No Limit Hold'em World Championship 165th $15,000
2008 $2,500 No Limit Hold'em 24th $17,351
2008 $10,000 No Limit Hold'em World Championship 640th $21,230

Family

Patri is the grandson of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman[28] and economist Rose Friedman and son of economist and physicist David D. Friedman.[28][29] He has two children by his first wife. As of February 10, 2018, he is married to Brit Benjamin with whom he has one child.[30] Patri and Brit are self described transhumanists and rationalists, they have arrange to be cryonically preserved after their legal death.[30][31]

References
  1. "Seasteading Craziness in Thailand with Patri Friedman". YouTube. May 31, 2019.
  2. McCullagh, David (February 2, 2009). "The next frontier: 'Seasteading' the oceans". CNET. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
  3. Bruder, Jessica (December 15, 2011). "YOU'RE THE BOSS; Floating Incubator For Start-Ups". New York Times. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
  4. Flock, Elizabeth (August 17, 2011). "Peter Thiel, founder of Paypal, invests $1.24 million to create floating micro-countries". Washington Post. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
  5. Miles, Jonathan (September 1, 2011). "The Billionaire King of Techtopia". Details. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
  6. "My namesake has a Wikipedia page". Patri's Peripatetic Peregrinations. Retrieved February 27, 2013.
  7. https://www.crunchbase.com/person/patri-friedman#/entity
  8. Bowles, Nellie (June 1, 2011). "Patri Friedman makes waves with 'seasteading' plan". SFGate. Archived from the original on March 12, 2012. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
  9. O'Connor, Clare (November 10, 2010). "Names You Need To Know In 2011: Patri Friedman". Forbes. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
  10. "Patri Forwalter-Friedman". The Mob Poker Database. 2002–2008. Archived from the original on March 12, 2012. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
  11. Mangu-Ward, Katherine (April 28, 2008). "Homesteading on the High Seas". Reason. Archived from the original on March 12, 2012. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
  12. "Peter Thiel Makes Down Payment on Libertarian Ocean Colonies". WIRED.
  13. Cooper, Charles (June 3, 2011). "Ocean cities? So says Milton Friedman's grandson". CBS News. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
  14. "More time for Seasteading – The Seasteading Institute". The Seasteading Institute.
  15. Adam Frucci. "Silicon Valley Nerds Plan Sea-Based Utopian Country to Call Their Own". Gizmodo. Gawker Media.
  16. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90664406
  17. "Meetup.com – October 2010 Seasteading Social at the Hyatt Regency SF". Retrieved October 20, 2010.
  18. "Ephemerisle Documentary 2009b by Jason Sussberg". Vimeo.
  19. Friedman, Patri (July 31, 2011). "The Seasteading Institute – July 2011 Newsletter". The Seasteading Institute. Archived from the original on March 12, 2012. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
  20. "Free cities: Honduras shrugged". The Economist. December 10, 2011. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
  21. Doherty, Brian (December 6, 2011). "Seasteaders Take to the Land in Honduras". Reason. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
  22. Friedman, Patri (October 31, 2012). "Future Cities Development ceasing operations".
  23. Chapman, Lizette (January 6, 2010) "The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land." Bloomberg News. (Retrieved March 19, 2020).
  24. Pein, Corey (2017) Live Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley. Metropolitan Books: Henry Holt and Co: New York. Page 221.
  25. Friedman, Patri (January 26, 2014) "Patri Friedman on Facebook." Facebook. (Retrieved June 27 2019.)
  26. Matros, Matt (2005). "The Making Of A Poker Player: How An Ivy League Math Geek Learned To Play".
  27. "Patri Friedman LinkedIn". August 22, 2005.
  28. "Live Free or Drown: Floating Utopias on the Cheap". Wired. January 19, 2009.
  29. Moser, Whet (August 18, 2011). "Milton Friedman's Grandson to Build Floating Libertarian Nation". Chicago Magazine. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
  30. Radomsky, Rosalie R. (February 10, 2018). "A Commitment for More Than One Lifetime". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
  31. "ApoE4 – The Ancestral Allele". Biostasis. August 5, 2011. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
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