#Seasteading

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Seasteading Institute The Seasteading Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit cofounded in 2008 by Peter Thiel and Patri Friedman (grandson of economist Milton Friedman) to establish autonomous, sovereign floating cities on the ocean as a physical instantiation of the sovereign-individual thesis, which pursued a floating-city project in French Polynesia before the territorial government cut ties in 2018.
Thiel Foundation Peter Thiel's private foundation, named Shire Philanthropic Foundation on its 2008 return, which funded life-extension, artificial intelligence, seasteading and mimetic-theory groups, an institute at Palantir's address, and DonorsTrust.

The Sovereign Individual The Sovereign Individual is a 1997 book by William Rees-Mogg and James Dale Davidson that argues digital encryption and electronic commerce will erode the taxing capacity of nation-states and produce a new class of mobile, sovereign individuals operating beyond territorial jurisdiction, repeatedly cited publicly by Peter Thiel as prophetic.