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I'm not sure I understand you. Obviously it matters to your future self A whether A is tortured or pleasured. And also to your current self whether there is a future self A that will be tortured. Do you think that, given that your future self A is tortured and your future self B pleasured, there is an additional fact as to whether you will be tortured or pleasured? I don't. And I don't see the relevance of the rest of your post to my point either.
If you're searching for how I disagree with you, I don't (I thought I made that clear with "as you allow"). At first you were talking about a perfectly symmetrical situation; I was interested in a less symmetrical one.
Is there an additional fact? No, and at first I was tempted to think that it matters how if there's a continuous experience vs. a discontinuity where a scanned copy is woken up, (i.e. the original isn't destroyed, so I might care more, as the original, about what fate lies in store for it). But I think that difference doesn't even matter to me, assuming perfect copying, of course.
To indulge in another shift: maybe I'll create slave copies of myself one day. I certainly won't be allocating an even share of my resources to them (they'll hate me for it) :)