Let's upgrade this into something terrifying: Life may exist in a state of quantum suicide.
Suppose there exists some phenomenon which instantly ends life, and has a relative frequency of happening to a given sector of the universe of 1/100 in any given month. Suppose moreover that there's some means of detecting such an event with 100% accuracy two months in advance of it occurring.
The Anthropic Principle combined with MWI means such a phenomenon could very well exist, and the only reason we're still around to consider it is we haven't yet built a detector for that event.
ETA: Actually, it's entirely possible some people did, and it's simply that nobody else knew about it. AP and MWI can turn knowledge into an existential risk. The universe could be full of basilisks.
Entangling with it won't hurt you; not entangling with it won't save you. When the event happens, you'll be entangled with it either way, and with the same probability to boot.
Though I don't expect such a detector to ever show that our universe will end within two months (and take bets to that tune), since - well, if I predict it'll end and it does, the me in that universe won't have significant time to enjoy being right.
Imagine that the universe is approximately as it appears to be (I know, this is a controversial proposition, but bear with me!). Further imagine that the many worlds interpretation of Quantum mechanics is true (I'm really moving out of Less Wrong's comfort zone here, aren't I?).
Now assume that our universe is in a situation of false vacuum - the universe is not in its lowest energy configuration. Somewhere, at some point, our universe may tunnel into true vacuum, resulting in a expanding bubble of destruction that will eat the entire universe at high speed, destroying all matter and life. In many worlds, such a collapse need not be terminal: life could go one on a branch of lower measure. In fact, anthropically, life will go on somewhere, no matter how unstable the false vacuum is.
So now assume that the false vacuum we're in is highly unstable - the measure of the branch in which our universe survives goes down by a factor of a trillion every second. We only exist because we're in the branch of measure a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of... all the way back to the Big Bang.
None of these assumptions make any difference to what we'd expect to see observationally: only a good enough theory can say that they're right or wrong. You may notice that this setup transforms the whole universe into a quantum suicide situation.
The question is, how do you go about maximising expected utility in this situation? I can think of a few different approaches: