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Elon Musk's favorite game is Deus Ex. Jeffrey Epstein described himself as a science philanthropist. Peter Thiel is loose and fast with funding. I don't think the aristocracy funding off-label R&D is even remotely aberrational.
The real question is how to get access to the corporate and government mind-holds where they put the Big Brains with Dangerous Thoughts that they've hired without any goal but to deprive their potential competitors of a possible weapon.