This is somewhat of a myth by exageration, the US supported the mujahideen, people seem to equate the Taliban and the mujahideen but only a small subset of them became the Taliban, a good number of them would become the Northen Alliance who would resist the Taliban. And it must be said while the US had been the masters of imperialism lately that’s no excuse for Soviet imperialism
I’m not going to disagree with anything here but
“Sure, they may not be as good as human therapists. But something is definitely better than nothing, no?”
Please do not use an LLM as a therapist, something can definitly be worse than nothing. I use GitHub Copilot everyday for work, it helps me do what I want to do but I have to understand what it’s doing and when it’s wrong, which it often is. The point of a therapist is to help you through things you don’t understand, one day it might work, not today.
“the erection is a side effect that everybody who gets stung by this spider will experience”
From the article, no escape women
It literally says “There is no problem”. All the examples you give are problems. You’re arguing for drone strikes for shits and giggles