I suggest we do a study of ChatGPT use and increase in dumbness.

I started using Zim 10 years back and I keep coming back to it, after trying out several solutions: OneNote, Obsidian, Emacs org-mode, Evernote, and then some. The stability that Zim has is amazing. Its developer is conscientious, and has taken the path of gradual and slow development rather than trying to tackle every problem in a single shot.

If this question was asked in the 1970s (50 years back), the highest-voted answer would still have been 50 years. I think this answer would remain constant with time. Forever. Hence, my answer is NEVER. Machines would never be able to "feel" the same as we do. That is why they struggle with the most uniquely human tasks like language. It is that emotion that we feel which has in fact led us to solve the most challenging scientific and mathematical problems. We possess a certain "aesthetic" ability which had led us to the right directions when solving mathematical problems. Uniquely human innovation is only possible through those human traits. No matter how much we nail it down the silicon, it will never be able to produce something uniquely human.

I just tried 2 ISPs to check this: BSNL (government ISP) and Reliance Jio (private). Slashdot is working smooth on both. Other users also report the same. As of last Friday 25th August, perhaps your Internet usage quota has got exhausted. Get it recharged. And quit spreading fake news.

I agree that Ted Bundy argument is not a very strong one. Perhaps he was "born" with such tendencies. The point here to understand is that not everyone will have such tendencies. But a certain section of the society who is either "born" with it or is sexually deprived can be motivated by pornography.

It's indeed a Mad Max sort of world here in New Delhi. I'm also loooking out my window and...

In Northern India, where the sex ratio is around 900:1000 (M:F), magnify this over millions of people, and you'll see how many unsatisfied men are prowling on the streets. New Delhi is not a safe region. Over the past few years, it has seen some really dreaded cases of rapes. Bottles inserted in kids' vaginas and such (cases which never happened before frequently).

And if some say that the research I've quoted is of the 80s and pretty old, then here is a more modern perspective on this: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F... (a TED talk by Ran Gavrieli on "Why I stopped watching porn").

Besides all this, I am also not sure if porn really is bad in the sense that it induces violence. More research needs to be done by social psychologists. But one thing is for sure, it does mess up your sexual enjoyment of real sex.

One can never expect any praise for such steps here on Slashdot. But allow me to put my cents in favor of this ban. First, you could look at Ted Bundy's last interview where he confesses that his career as the America's most dreaded serial killer kicked off due to pornography. And he witnessed the same in many other inmates of his: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F... Now, Ted Bundy was no social psychologist. So, here is one study done on the effects of pornography: http://www.sciencedirect.com/s... So, blatantly saying that porn has no side effects and it doesn't mess with your brain is stupid. It is the first time in human history that pornographic material is so readily accessible to us. We don't yet know what harmful effects it can have in future. Besides inducing violence, it is a known fact that pornography also messes up the sexual preferences and real sex doesn't remain that beautiful.

Not everything depends on genetics. I've seen brothers 10 years apart in age where the older one looks younger only because he leads an active lifestyle while the other a sedentary one. Where is the genetics now?