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You understand what I'm saying, so I'd very much like to know why you think it's wrong.
Note that I'm not claiming that average utilitarianism must be correct. The axioms could be unreasonable, or a strict proof could fail for some as-yet unknown reason. But I think the axioms are either reasonable in both cases, or unreasonable in both cases; and so expected-value maximization and average utilitarianism go together.
See (1) the paragraph in my comment above beginning "This is of course the controversial bit", (2) Wei_Dai's comment further down and my reply to it, and (3) Nick Tarleton's (basically correct) objection to my description of E(f) as being derived from "the f-values of all the different versions of you".