Scott Aaronson

Nov 12, 2024 | nacleanenergy.com | Scott Aaronson

When you spend most of your time talking to farmers and folks in rural America, the biggest thing you’ll learn is this: It is harder than ever to be a farmer. In a business with already razor thin margins, equipment and supplies have significantly increased in price due to inflation, while over supply has caused prices of crops to hit 5-year lows.

May 29, 2024 | psychiatrist.com | Zofia Kozak |Scott Aaronson

A recent New York Times article1 described favorable findings from the most recent clinical trial investigating 3,4- methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) for moderate-to-severe posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).2 The article described next steps in the regulatory process for MDMA, as Lykos Therapeutics (formerly Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, or MAPS) has compiled data from 18 phase II and III trials and submitted a new drug application (NDA) to the US Food and Drug...

Dec 27, 2023 | psychiatrist.com | Andrew Cutler |Gregory Mattingly |Susan G. Kornstein |Scott Aaronson

ABSTRACTObjective: Zuranolone is a positive allosteric modulator of both synaptic and extrasynaptic γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) type A receptors and a neuroactive steroid approved in the United States as an oral, once-daily, 14-day treatment course for adults with postpartum depression and under investigation for adults with major depressive disorder (MDD).

Aug 11, 2023 | tandfonline.com | Matthew Johnson |Scott Aaronson

ABSTRACTIntroduction There has been increasing interest in the role psilocybin may play in the treatment of depressive disorders. Several clinical trials have shown psilocybin to have efficacy in reducing symptoms of depression. Areascovered We discuss the current understanding of psilocybin's therapeutic mechanism of action and review existing clinical data investigating psilocybin as a novel therapeutic agent for the treatment of depression.

Aug 10, 2023 | arxiv.org | Scott Aaronson

[Submitted on 10 Aug 2023 ( v1 ), last revised 17 Sep 2024 (this version, v3)] Title:Testing GPT-4 with Wolfram Alpha and Code Interpreter plug-ins on math and science problems View a PDF of the paper titled Testing GPT-4 with Wolfram Alpha and Code Interpreter plug-ins on math and science problems, by Ernest Davis and Scott Aaronson View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:This report describes a test of the large language model GPT-4 with the Wolfram Alpha and the Code Interpreter plug-ins on...