[gwern]

> Notice this is written by Lynn Conway - very accomplished chip designer/electrical engineer/systems engineer

And also an outrageously biased and partisan activist whose claims, when writing on anything but chip design, should be checked with a microscope and then promptly thrown out as cherry-picked or misleading in some way you weren't competent to figure out.

[davidtanner]

You should figure out exactly where she went wrong in her estimate and email her - I'm sure she'd be more than happy to correct her article.