Archive - Matthew Barnett’s Blog

Some arguments against a land value tax

It may be better than a lot of other taxes, but it's not perfect

Dec 30, 2024 •

Matthew Barnett

March 2023

GPT-4 takes Bryan Caplan's midterm and gets an A

On January 9th, a little over two months ago, Bryan Caplan wrote,

Mar 15, 2023 •

Matthew Barnett

February 2023

A reply to Michael Huemer on AI

We don't actually know how ChatGPT works. It might have some true understanding.

Feb 17, 2023 •

Matthew Barnett

August 2021

"If you tax labor, people will work less"

The title of this post is technically true in many circumstances, but it's more complicated than some think.

Aug 9, 2021 •

Matthew Barnett

July 2021

It's not just the incentives

Incentives make the world go round. You know what also does? People.

Jul 18, 2021 •

Matthew Barnett

May 2021

Introducing my personal prediction database

I show off my predictions, and answer some questions

May 26, 2021 •

Matthew Barnett

The core anti-vax argument is "nature is better"

The logic behind anti-vaccination reflects humanity's deep bias in favor of nature

May 15, 2021 •

Matthew Barnett

April 2021

Is equality indispensable?

A reply to Nathan Robinson and some musings on the capitalism vs. socialism divide

Apr 25, 2021 •

Matthew Barnett

Could we permanently fund the government via a one-time wealth tax?

A radical proposal for increasing prosperity

Apr 17, 2021 •

Matthew Barnett

March 2021

Conspicuous saving

It's well known that people around the world can be really bad at saving money.

Mar 22, 2021 •

Matthew Barnett

Defending the non-central fallacy

Aaron Bergman recently defended logical fallacies against the charge that they're bad arguments.

Mar 12, 2021 •

Matthew Barnett

This blog is about philosophy, effective altruism, artificial intelligence, the future, economics

Welcome to Matthew Barnett’s Blog by me, Matthew Barnett.

Mar 12, 2021 •

Matthew Barnett

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