That paper seems quite different from this post in important ways.
In particular, the gist of the OP seems to be something like “showing that pre-formal intuitions about instrumental convergence persist under a certain natural class of formalisations”. In particular, it does so using formalism closer to standard machine learning research.
The paper you linked seems to me to instead assume that this holds true, and then apply that insight in the context of military strategy. Without speculating about the merits of that, it seems like a different thing which will appeal to different readers, and if it is important, it will be important for somewhat different reasons.
That paper seems quite different from this post in important ways.
In particular, the gist of the OP seems to be something like “showing that pre-formal intuitions about instrumental convergence persist under a certain natural class of formalisations”. In particular, it does so using formalism closer to standard machine learning research.
The paper you linked seems to me to instead assume that this holds true, and then apply that insight in the context of military strategy. Without speculating about the merits of that, it seems like a different thing which will appeal to different readers, and if it is important, it will be important for somewhat different reasons.