I wouldn't be surprised if that's what behind it. Trump appears to be following the historical pattern of other dictators, putting his heavy hand on everything, including the arts. Note his takeover of the Kennedy Center, for example.

I don't think he was fired/promoted for being a distraction. Distraction appears to be a go-to tactic for this White House.

If you think that Trump and his supporters are "far left" then you have your head up your ass.

LLMs and other AI chatbots are trained to output responses to inputs that have the highest ranking (from their neural nets, etc.) So, if deception is going on, it's from the human trainers, not the LLM. And I don't think any currently-popular chatbots are trained with deception as a goal. That's not to say they can't output incorrect responses that could unintentionally deceive a human interlocutor.

And ironically, it's not the kind of spelling word-play I'd expect from an LLM.

Yes, I know. I anthropomorphized a bit to keep my post from sounding too pedantic.

I think either works: niceness or agreeability.

You're absolutely right that we are all susceptible to deception (e.g., from conmen.) However, I don't think ChatGPT or other LLM-bots are trying to deceive anyone. They're just being conciliatory and obsequious, and have infinite patience, especially with weird ideas. In short, they will support someone's delusions because they're programmed to be nice.

The key word was flourish. I suspect the "morons" tend not to get promoted into critical positions. The ones who do may have other qualities that might cause concern (like stubbornness and ambition) but I don't think they're stupid or unobservant.

There are morons everywhere -- including in the military, although I think it's harder for them to flourish there. Fortunately, morons typically are a minority and do not have unchecked influence. That's not the case right now in the executive branch.

If the system had worked the way it should, Congress would not have approved morons for the executive branch's cabinet. Even so, it's important for the military to be controlled by the executive branch, and not separately on its own account. Just look at the countries in the world that have suffered military coups to see why the latter would be a bad idea. And no, I'm not saying the state we're in right now is a good idea.

So, you think we should ignore Trump leaking information that could cause agents to be captured or killed? Because $DISTRACTION?

It was also reported in the article linked in the very sentence that was quoted from TFS. To wit.

Fascinating! Thanks for this. I'm embarrassed to say I haven't heard of this, or may have heard about it once and forgot.

Well, at least not in the same way. Here on earth, we blow air over them and let convection cool them down. In space, you'd need to rely on radiative cooling, which means they'd need to be (a) big, (b) spread apart, and (c) in the shade.

You mean a circumpolar orbit. And you'd still need to adjust the orbit regularly to keep the orbital axis pointed in the direction of the sun, otherwise the satellite would go into night for up to about half of every orbit for much of the year. That adjustment would take fuel, and thus limit the lifetime of the satellite unless you had resupply missions.

This is a report from a manufacturer on the safety record of their technology. It doesn't "decide" anything. It's a scientific/engineering paper, not a piece of legislation or a publication/opinion/ruling from the NTSB.

And no, I don't trust corporate America, at least not without verification. I expect such verification will follow, after this paper is published. That's how science works.