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I haven't read more than the freely available sample chapters (and have therefore avoided reading too much of what you wrote -- my apologies if this invalidates what I'm about to say, but I don't think it does), but Eliezer has previously written a summoned-hero story that's much more explicitly about these themes: The Hero With A Thousand Chances.
Is there a reason Eliezer hasn't, as far as I know, written about QI more explicitly? It would seem logical for him to take it seriously given his opinions on other issues, and I personally think it's a huge deal, but in the quantum physic sequence he pretty much says that MWI vs Collapse isn't really a big deal in practical terms.
I don't know; sorry. I would guess that he thinks, as I do, that because "it all adds up to normality" we should think about our successors in different branches in much the same way as we do about our different possible successors when we think in probabilistic terms, and that QI doesn't have much actual content. But I may well be making the standard mistake of assuming that other people think the same as one does oneself.