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Should it? It appears to me that efforts toward saving the world, if successful, only raise the odds that the branch you personally experience will include a saved world.
Or from a different perspective your decision algorithm partially determines the optimization target for the updateless game-theoretical compromise that emerges around that algorithm.
That's certainly a useful view of the ambiguity inherent in decision theory in MWI. Or it would be, if I had a local group to help me get a deep understanding of UDT--the Tampa chapter of the Bayesian Conspiracy has lain in abeyance since your visit.