@Phil Goetz:

"The Einstein sequence is a unique identifying number attached to ... If you mean something different, you should explain."

Eliezer posted a fairly detailed series of discussions recently on how and whether we should treat Einstein as some kind of superior being. You should read them front-to-back, but unfortunately, the links run the other way. Here's the final one, which contains links to its predecessors. I suspect if you follow the links, the earliest ones will indeed point into the sequence on many-worlds that preceded it.

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/05/einsteins-super.html