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Thinking of it as being limited to using a specific decision theory is incorrect. Instead, it should simply be seen as using a specific decision theory, or one of many. It's not like evolution and such are here right now, guiding your actions. Evolution acts through our genes, which program us to do a specific thing.
Why do the richest people on Earth spend so much time and money helping out the poorest? Is that what a rational agent with a Parfit-winning decision theory would do?
In general, they don't. The ones that do (Gates, Buffet, etc) get a fair bit of attention for it.