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It might be. Do you really think anyone still making decisions isn't completely brain rotted?
Yes. I think it's dangerous to say "they are just crazy"
They're... Crazy is a vast often thought terminating simplification, but I do think it applies to many of them. Not what I mean.
I mean psychological damage from excessive hard-slop yes-man culture and chatbot use. Things that would ruin any of us.
I wouldn't deny the damage caused by chatbot use, nor would I deny there being a culture of yes-men. These things are symptoms though, not causes. The question I think is important is "why are people this way?" and I don't believe it can really be sufficiently answered by considering individual psychology or looking at small scale workplace dynamics.
The US government, federal and local, is much better at unifying data streams at this point time than it ever was. Flock came to fill the hole. Of course you're going to get yes-men when such a big opportunity presents itself.
Arms manufacturing is also deeply unpopular. Arms manufacturers know this. They still do what they are doing fully aware about every implication, no culture of yes men needed in my opinion.