It is rooted in initiatives like the Seasteading Institute, which basically seeks to create a startup sector in governance and institutions.

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Then there was Patri Friedman, the founder of the Seasteading Institute.

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It was co-founded by Patri Friedman, a grandson of Milton Friedman, a Nobel laureate in economics, and until recently executive director of the Seasteading Institute, a group producing research on how to build ocean-based communes.

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