"No, I don't think that's it. I was willing to concede the point if Civilization genuinely thought this was the destruction-of-Civilization-minimizing policy, at least until I'm smart enough to evaluate if they're right about that in our world where gods sometimes get utility-flipped accidentally. I'll abide by policies that destroy Civilization if they're the policies that we think lead to the least destruction of Civilization.
But it's not that, it's that Civilization is actually willing to adopt policies that kill me in worlds that are sufficiently unpretty by the standards of greater Reality. A - values thing, not a predictions thing.
I think Asmodeus goes 'yeah, that's a very unpretty reality there, Carissa doesn't choose Abaddon? no? okay, so be it', and if I'm wrong about that, and Asmodeus is willing to adopt policies that kill everyone in sufficiently unpretty worlds for the sake of greater Reality, then I don't share Asmodeus's values, and I don't want him to be powerful enough to end civilization in those worlds, so I need a god who does share my values, or to become one if there aren't any."