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Why exactly is Fred changing his preferences? If he's trying to make it so his future preferences are fulfilled, he should change them to preferring the universe to be exactly the way it is. If he's trying to make it so his current preferences are fulfilled, he probably shouldn't change them.
And what's he changing them to? Don't care about cheaply made people?
As he said, his concerns about the simulated people interfere with his sleep. More abstractly, he has preferences that attract his attention even though he cannot act upon them, so he is thinking about getting rid of them.
He can try to raise awareness. He can try to do something to keep the remaining spheres from breaking.
Also, I got the impression that you were implying we should change our preferences like that. I haven't lost any sleep to this issue, so it wouldn't apply to me.
It seems like people often change their preferences in the real world. Do you think these instances fit your model, or do you disagree that it occurs (for example, are we using different definitions of 'preference')?