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If the universe is infinite, then there are infinitely many copies of me, following the same algorithm, so my decisions create infinite amounts of good or evil (through my copies which decide the same way).
Or, to see it from another angle, if the universe is literally infinite, then it is more or less infinitely repetitive. So let's take a part of universe containing a copy of approximately everything, and treat this part as a finite universe, which is just replicated infinitely many times.
Your "measure" is the proportion of your copies to the infinite universe.
Does this follow? The set of computable functions is infinite, but has no duplicate elements.
The measure of simple computable functions is probably larger than the measure of complex computable functions and I probably belong to the simpler end of computable functions.
Ok, I think that helps a bit. But if there are infinite copies, how can you talk of proportions? It's not like anything you do decreases or increases the number of copies, right?