Ashe Vásquez Núñez
Researcher and author who wrote the LessWrong post on identities and intrapersonal games, mentored by Richard Ngo; contributor to work on embedded agency and temporal-instance game-theoretic models.
Best podcasts with Ashe Vásquez Núñez
Ranked by the Snipd community
Mar 26, 2026 • 21min
“Agents Can Get Stuck in Self-distrusting Equilibria” by Ashe Vazquez Nuñez
Ashe Vásquez Núñez, a researcher on embedded agency and identities in intrapersonal games, explains how an agent's temporal selves can distrust each other. Short takes cover models of self-distrust, how coercion and commitment shape coherence, identities as coordination tools, and a formal toy framework showing stable self-punishing patterns.
