Fast converging sums involving tetrations

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Loosely speaken, Liouville's theorem shows that rational series converging "too fast", have a transcendental limit. The concrete criterion is somewhat cumbersome and hard to check.

Now my question :

Is

$$\sum_{k=1}^\infty {\frac{1}{k \uparrow \uparrow n}}$$

a transcendental number for all natural numbers n>=2 ?

Is Liouvilles criterion helpful here ?

And finally, is the sum

$$\sum_{k=1}^\infty {\frac{1}{k \uparrow \uparrow k}}$$

a transcendental number ?