{"id":1109,"date":"2026-07-29T09:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2026-07-29T09:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:13:11","slug":"hate-ai-because-youre-a-leftist-heres-a-video-worth-considering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=1109","title":{"rendered":"Hate AI Because You\u2019re a Leftist? Here\u2019s a Video Worth Considering"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Matt Bruenig is a socialist lawyer who loves using AI. You might even say he\u2019s the prototypical example of a lefty who takes the contrarian position on AI among those he\u2019s allied with politically. Earlier this year, he told Transformer\u2019s Dan Kagan-Kans, for a piece titled \u201cThe left is missing out on AI,\u201d that he was worried about \u201cthe left-wing abstaining from using the tools when the right-wing does not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=1107\">All American Airlines Flights Not in the Air Were Grounded on Tuesday Due to an IT Problem<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t abundantly clear to me at the time how it follows that leftist goals like unionizing workplaces, building a working-class movement, or getting leftist politicians elected were supposed to benefit from AI.<\/p>\n<p>I still wouldn\u2019t say it\u2019s <i>abundantly<\/i> clear, but Bruenig has certainly made an intriguing YouTube video about putting Claude Code to leftist uses. He\u2019s a policy wonk, so the video is not for anyone who might be squeamish about watching a 51-minute video about statistical weighting, but if you can get over that hump, I recommend it:<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"375\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KQog2g_zoJ8?feature=oembed\" title=\"Quickly Disproving the Wall Street Journal With My AI Microdata System\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>The background is that a recent Wall Street Journal article profiled young people moving in with their parents. It framed the idea not as the hardship it once was, but almost as a frugal no-brainer, and a strategy smart young people are employing to, perhaps, regroup following a breakup, or \u201csave money for a starter home.\u201d I heard some drive time DJs talking about this viral article on the radio earlier this month, and while part of it was about the undeniably true fact that housing is too expensive in America, the part about a cultural change just didn\u2019t feel accurate.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>But the marquee statistic sounded undeniable:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cLast year, 49% of adults under age 30 said they lived with a parent, up 12 percentage points from 2019, according to the Federal Reserve\u2019s latest Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking.\u201d \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>12 percentage points is kind of a breathtaking six-year jump, reflective not just of the Covid-era shock, but of a sudden and widespread change in attitude.<\/p>\n<p>And according to Bruenig, apparently with the help of Claude Code, it\u2019s simply a bad conclusion drawn from statistical crud in the Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking (SHED) survey data.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=1105\">Survey Finds Americans See AI as Comparable to Humans. It\u2019s Making Them Trust It Less<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the video, we see that Bruenig had already loaded up some folders (in Yazi) with survey data, and he uses Claude Code (armed with the Ghostty terminal emulator and running tmux to create panes in Ghostty). In a previous video he showed how he uses this setup to perform microdata analysis.<\/p>\n<p>And while I\u2019m not a stats guy, and I hesitate to just agree that the Journal\u2019s conclusion is bunk based on one YouTube video, it\u2019s impressive to see Bruenig prompt Claude by basically saying, verbally, that the stat looks a little fishy, and then have Claude Code go into bloodhound mode and quickly jump all over what seems to be some pretty clear bad math.<\/p>\n<p>Allegedly, the illusion of a sudden 12% jump is caused by a \u201csurveying artifact.\u201d In one year\u2019s survey, SHED\u2019s 18-29 tranche has too few teens\u2014the cohort likely to live with their parents\u2014and in another survey the ages in that tranche are more balanced. On a graph, the result of sampling in this way would look like a big jump in the 18-29 group living with their parents, but it\u2019s an outlier caused by statistical noise, and the real recent jump is probably around 3%.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This would probably mean there wasn\u2019t actually some big attitude change, and that people probably just live with their parents because that\u2019s what they\u2019re stuck doing. Same as it ever was.<\/p>\n<p>Using AI to apparently prove this point with minimal effort is cool. Does it mean the left should embrace AI wholeheartedly? That\u2019s a debate for a different time. But, assuming the math can be independently validated, it\u2019s an example of AI sniffing out the truth, and if you\u2019re someone who longs to, say, leftistly prove the objective truth of the maxims of historical materialism, maybe it\u2019s worth at least <em>considering<\/em> something like Bruenig\u2019s AI tool as a helper. Or not. Don\u2019t get mad at me.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=1103\">Grok Creator SpaceXAI Sues Minnesota AG to Stop Ban on Nudification<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if you had a machine for proving that the Wall Street Journal is wrong?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hate AI Because You\u2019re a Leftist? 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