spqr0a1 comments on From Philosophy to Math to Engineering - Less Wrong

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Comment author: spqr0a1 04 November 2013 10:32:07PM 0 points [-]

On the left is Willard Quine.

Comment author: lukeprog 05 November 2013 04:21:58AM 0 points [-]

Nope!

Comment author: gjm 04 November 2013 11:19:06PM 0 points [-]

How sure are you? It seems plausible that Quine looked like that at one time, but none of the pictures of him I can find look all that similar. And while Quine did important work on many many things, I wouldn't put causality high on the list of things he's known for working on.

Still, I've so far failed to find anyone notable in the field who looks much more like that image...