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Why are bacterial infections fatal, evolutionary speaking? What good does it do to the bacteria if it kills its host?

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Do blind people still produce melatonin depending on ambient light?

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Some sources claim that one of the effects of depression is sleepiness, and some say insomnia. So, which one is it?

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The Wikipedia article on Born Rule is pretty cryptic, and talks about it as if it were an additional mysterious phenomena orthogonal to the Shrodinger's Equation. It feels wrong. Do we actually know where it comes from and how to derive it?

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Please, explain Intuitionistic logic. If not True is False, and not False is True, but not not a is not nessesarily a, then what else can it possibly be?

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Why do some rodents care to spend nutrients to build many babies, if they're gonna eat most of them anyway?

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Is the Halting Problem algorithmically solvable, if we only care about TMs with less than N states, for some aribtrary but fixed N? (memory tape is still allowed to be infinite)

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Had it ever happened, that a theorem was proved, accepted, and used in practical applications, only to later be discovered false due to an error in the proof that nobody noticed?

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In his Quantum Mechanics Sequence, Eliezer Yudkowsky claims (without proof) that unitarity violation can lead to faster-than-light signaling. Is it true? How?

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Is the wave-particle duality meaningful outside its historical context of knowing about particles first and coming to waves later? Right now it seems that all the experiments are consistent with things just being unambiguously waves.

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Why are bacterial infections fatal, evolutionary speaking? What good does it do to the bacteria if it kills its host?	3
Do blind people still produce melatonin depending on ambient light?	3
Some sources claim that one of the effects of depression is sleepiness, and some say insomnia. So, which one is it?	3
The Wikipedia article on Born Rule is pretty cryptic, and talks about it as if it were an additional mysterious phenomena orthogonal to the Shrodinger's Equation. It feels wrong. Do we actually know where it comes from and how to derive it?	2
Please, explain Intuitionistic logic. If not True is False, and not False is True, but not not a is not nessesarily a, then what else can it possibly be?	2
Why do some rodents care to spend nutrients to build many babies, if they're gonna eat most of them anyway?	1
Is the Halting Problem algorithmically solvable, if we only care about TMs with less than N states, for some aribtrary but fixed N? (memory tape is still allowed to be infinite)	1
Had it ever happened, that a theorem was proved, accepted, and used in practical applications, only to later be discovered false due to an error in the proof that nobody noticed?	1
In his Quantum Mechanics Sequence, Eliezer Yudkowsky claims (without proof) that unitarity violation can lead to faster-than-light signaling. Is it true? How?	1
Is the wave-particle duality meaningful outside its historical context of knowing about particles first and coming to waves later? Right now it seems that all the experiments are consistent with things just being unambiguously waves.	1