Given even the most benign objective — to win a game — such a system, Bostrom argues, might develop "instrumental goals": gather resources, or invent technology, or take steps to insure that it cannot be turned off, in the process paying as much heed to human life as humans do to ants.
The objective of this study was to develop instrumental protocols for evaluating physicochemical characteristics of plant biostimulant/biofertiliser formulations.
Currently, he works as a forensic researcher, a position that allows him to actively develop instrumental methods for the testing of illicit substances for narcotic and toxicological cases.
We develop instrumental variable (IV) methods for the estimation of causal peer effects using longitudinal dyadic data from a social network.
During the course of the 16th century, instrumental music burgeoned rapidly, along with the continually developing idiomatically instrumental techniques, such as strongly accented rhythms, rapid repeated tones and figures, angular melodic lines involving wide intervallic skips, wide ranges, long, sustained tones and phrases, and much melodic ornamentation.
The concept of a City Distribution Center has been developed as instrumental in most City Logistics proposals and developments.
Chernozhukov and Hansen (2008) developed an instrumental variable quantile regression procedure (IVQR) that relaxes the exogeneity assumption.
The aim of this study was to develop an instrumental method to assess in vivo disintegration time and palatability of ODTs.
That is, they tend to develop an instrumental attitude about those technologies with which they have the most expertize, and that this attitude is not necessarily reflective of a more general conscious adherence to an instrumentalist philosophy.
In 1969, Nzimande discovered The Movers, with whom he "developed an instrumental organ-led sound mixing the marabi township with R&B," explains Scott.
