I believe the opposite—that the drives identified by Steve Omohundro as instrumental goals for any sufficiently advanced AI (like self-preservation, efficiency, resource acquisition) are really the only terminal goals that matter.
Even if this is ~technically true, if your [essence of self that you want to preserve] involves something like [effectively ensuring that X happens], this is at least behaviorally equivalent to having a terminal goal that is not instrumental in the sense that instrumental convergence is not going to universally produce it in the limit.
Even if this is ~technically true, if your [essence of self that you want to preserve] involves something like [effectively ensuring that X happens], this is at least behaviorally equivalent to having a terminal goal that is not instrumental in the sense that instrumental convergence is not going to universally produce it in the limit.