Hello , chaizen. I would like to add to what you wrote on the topic of timeless decision theory etc.

I would point out that if you believe in an interpretation of physics like the "mathematical universe hypothesis", then you need to average over instances of yourself in different 'areas' of mathematics or logic, as well as over different branches of a single wave function ( correct me if I am misunderstanding the Many Worlds Interpretation) . This might well affect the weight you assign to the many simulated copies of yourself; in particular, if you interpret yourself as a logical structure processing information, then it could be argued that at a high level of abstraction the trillion copies are (almost) identical and therefore don't count as having 1 trillion times as much conscious experience as 1 of you, only being distinct consciousnesses insofar as they experience different things or thought processes.

The above would be my tentative argument for why an extremely large number of moderately happy beings would not necessarily be morally better than a moderately large number of very happy ones as they probably have much higher overlap with one another in a mathematical/logical universe.

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