Taking a quick look at the wiki about The Chinese Room, it's a nicely clear illustration of how merely running a program isn't what we seem to sense intelligence is, for us at least. And I think so too. I think we have some kinda really amazing thing happening, possibly even involving stuff like true quantum randomness, for instance, and perhaps possibly there could be affects from as yet unknown physics, and those are only 2 pieces that come up in my speculations. I perhaps would look at that 1hr 10m video some evening, but I wonder if it touches on neural networks, which I think of as interesting (and to which a randomness could be added also in an engineering try-it-and-see iteration process)?
Fun 2nd video there. heh heh
I agree with you these are happening and even the most important factors also at this time:
"The billionaires pay the lobbyists to pass legislation creating cartels and monopolies in exchange for campaign financing. With the price fixing of products and services along with the price fixing of wages based on government published data the result is extreme levels of wealthy inequality not seen since the age of Robber Barons."
About Warren and Sanders tax rates, they are both significant increases of course, and though Sanders is more, the main thing is to just simply fund government adequately, and does Warren fail to have good enough program proposals after Medicare for all, college tuition, tuition debt forgiveness, free childcare? These seem huge gains, and perhaps as much of gains as would be possible to do for now, one might think (like me).
Another aspect about how to tax best is the
practical aspect, as highlighted in this paragraph, referencing France's own attempt and outcome:
Besides, there are other reasons to be skeptical about such a levy’s ability to raise $3.75 trillion. For one thing, the projections rely on overly optimistic assumptions about tax avoidance. In addition, the inability to raise substantial wealth tax revenue is why close to a dozen European governments have dropped the tax altogether since the 1990s. In France, around 200 billion Euros were lost in capital flight every year — about double what the tax actually raised.
A reality check on Warren's and Sanders's spending proposals
It's self-defeating, harming, to merely raise taxes without a deep and good understanding of how it all works, which requires a
non-ideological approach that lets one learn from schools of thought without filtering.
So, it's not merely to have the idea and a rough sketch, but instead some smarter thinking and structure would be needed, which is possible, but only if the administration is.......able to realize that and then try to find that thinking, which would be laudable, in that the wiser people try to bring in the best ideas, instead of thinking they already have them.
That's a reason to think Warren is better than she may seem -- she isn't that ideological. She is outcome driven, and that means willing to bring in better ideas. That's superior.