** Descent: Journeys in the Dark is a two to five player high fantasy dungeon crawl published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2005. Descent was designed and produced by Kevin Wilson. (USA) The game is based on an improved version of the mechanics of FFG's licensed Doom: The Boardgame.Wilson received a B.A. in Cognitive Science (Artificial Intelligence) from U.C. Berkeley in 1997, and was active in the interactive fiction community at the time. He wrote several works of interactive fiction — including Once and Future and The Lesson of the Tortoise — and founded the annual Interactive Fiction Competition and the Internet magazine SPAG.

Much like Monopoly – which began as a tool for illustrating the evils of capitalism but ended up demonstrating how fun it is to render your friends and family destitute – The Game of Life has sold millions of copies thanks to some crucial ways in which it isn’t like real life. For a start, it’s socially acceptable to ignore moralizing and set about winning. Then, when it’s finished, you tidy up the pieces, redistribute the spoils and start again. All losses are temporary, all victories inconsequential

Notes update 2026.
Imagine conversation with Peter Thiel and Elon Musk about, for example, the Fermi Paradox.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi.  
Consider, also, the business relationships between the two. Theil and Musk once establishing Pay Pal are well known. As much, Thiel investing in Space X is known. As much, Thiel establishing Palantir is known.  Musk diverging into Tesla and SpaceX to the aerospace industries then foregrounds the noted realization that the need and use of cheap energy is a data feature, and hence the race with Grok. *

Also, other data training companies, current day. 
As an investor, both as investors, these people show interest in the space frontier.

What I note about Thiel, what we all note about Thiel, are Theil's intellectual, philosophical and fiscal interests.

What I note, what we all note about Musk, is his awareness of AI and AI use warnings. e.g. in reading Aurthur. C. Clarke, Musk reminded Milken Institute delegates recently,

 "AIs must be truth seeking AIs".

https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-golden-dome-missle-defense/ April 23, 2026

Interesting reading to keep up with:
https://www.teslarati.com/about-us/

**Google DeepMind is a now a leading AI research laboratory formed in April 2023 by merging Google's two elite AI research teams: DeepMind and Google Brain. Owned by Alphabet Inc., it operates as the central AI engine, developing advanced models like Gemini for Google's services.Wikipedia
DeepMind is a British American artificial intelligence The Leader of significance is CEO Demis Hassabishttps://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&sca_esv=cc26d5f28dfddab8&rlz=1C1GCEA_enNZ1177NZ1177&sxsrf=ANbL-n7_WGLvMkIVnGT6ZGnEBsX8OMYUvA:1777663602308&q=Demis+Hassabis&si=AL3DRZEaipurC9pse1xO2aCwuJWfKA_Njx1c7Qs8ap9rx81jmiVXNjiFghZQKbKr43yi5TfjsiH-en04EnmI8jRNDC8eJF02vifVKKJnTl7tDX6ajzgzCcswKuhQXyQ4ra4PXvse2BT5CiV-zDxugVcLzNottn0ToHMKXApF_il_hCLAc5Y1QilkSd3zRvUaqFjC1xc8xDvdDZ8Kgf58gGLdXJxSKEBGNA%3D%3D&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiryK786JiUAxXcaPUHHXPAGlwQmxN6BAgPEAI&biw=1136&bih=679&dpr=1.5