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These two statements are not equivalent. Quantum immortality refers to the hypothetical (supposedly inevitable) subjective experience of ever-continuing life, the latter sentence seems to describe the continuing existence (in atleast one branch) of some person you could currently consider to be a future version of your current self.
I believe in the latter, but not in the former. There's nothing mystical and immortal about my self-perception of continuity, or memory, that it should persist in the branch that "I" follow; even if we limit ourselves to the branches where there's some continuing qualia-producing processes, why should the sense of self be the process that remains functioning last?