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Your argument definitely does not apply in general; I would not consent to walking through a box in which I am tortured and then my memory is erased in order to get $1000 on the other side.
I'm not sure if I would.
It's the same argument though.
How much money would I have to pay you for you to let me rape you in a way that causes no physical trauma, after dosing you with a drug that prevents you from remembering the hour before or after it?
Would that dollar amount change if I told you I had already given you the drug?
The problem I see is your treatment of this arrangement as a "black box" of you[entering] and you[exiting]. But this is illegitimate. There were ten rounds of you[copy-that-dies] that would also be you[entering].
Have you read EY's writings on timeless decision theory? It seems to me that this is a variation.
I would need more details about the erasure process, what are the side effects?
I'm not sure exactly what details you want, but there are no side effects; you are left with approximately the same memories as someone who walked through a box that does not torture people. The point of including the memory erasure in the thought experiment was to prevent any harm from occurring after you left the box.
I feel like you knew this and are asking about something else, but I am not sure what. Maybe something identity-related?