The point of Torture vs. Dust Specks is that our moral intuition dramatically conflicts with strict utilitarianism.
Your thought experiment helps express your moral intuition, but it doesn’t do anything to resolve the conflict.
Although, come to think of it, I think there’s an argument to be made that the majority would answer no. If we interpret 3^^^3 people to mean qualitatively distinct individuals, there’s not enough room in humanspace for all of those people to be human—the vast majority will be nonhumans. It can be argued, at least, that if you pick a random nonhuman individual, that individual will not be altruistic towards humans.
The point of Torture vs. Dust Specks is that our moral intuition dramatically conflicts with strict utilitarianism.
Your thought experiment helps express your moral intuition, but it doesn’t do anything to resolve the conflict.
Although, come to think of it, I think there’s an argument to be made that the majority would answer no. If we interpret 3^^^3 people to mean qualitatively distinct individuals, there’s not enough room in humanspace for all of those people to be human—the vast majority will be nonhumans. It can be argued, at least, that if you pick a random nonhuman individual, that individual will not be altruistic towards humans.