frizzers comments on AALWA: Ask any LessWronger anything - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 15 March 2014 03:30:08AM *  14 points [-]

I've been getting an increasing number of interview requests from reporters and book writers (stemming from my connection with Bitcoin). In the interest of being lazy, instead of doing more private interviews I figure I'd create an entry here and let them ask questions publicly, so I can avoid having to answer redundant questions. I'm also open to answering any other questions of LW interest here.

In preparation for this AMA, I've updated my script for retrieving and sorting all comments and posts of a given LW user, to also allow filtering by keyword or regex. So you can go to http://www.ibiblio.org/weidai/lesswrong_user.php, enter my username "Wei_Dai", then (when the page finishes loading) enter "bitcoin" in the "filter by" box to see all of my comments/posts that mention Bitcoin.

Comment author: frizzers 18 March 2014 02:31:26PM 2 points [-]

The correct pronunciation of your name.

Wei - is it pronounced as in 'way' or 'why'?

And Dai - as in 'dye' or 'day'?

Thank you.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 18 March 2014 06:21:31PM *  8 points [-]

It's Chinese Pinyin romanization, so pronounced "way dye".

ETA: Since Pinyin is a many to one mapping, and as a result most Chinese articles about Bitcoin put the wrong name down for me, I'll take this opportunity to mention that my name is written logographically as 戴维.