What I meant was this: assume that 3^^^3 dust specks on one person is worse that 50 years of torture. As long as the dust specks sensation is somewhat additive, that should be true. Now suppose you have to choose between dust specks and torture 3^^^3 times, one for each person (“so, do we torture individual 27602, or one dust speck on everyone? Now, same question for 27603....).
Then always choosing dust specks is worse, for everyone, than always choosing torture.
So the dust-speck decision becomes worse and worse, the more often you expect to encounter it.
What I meant was this: assume that 3^^^3 dust specks on one person is worse that 50 years of torture. As long as the dust specks sensation is somewhat additive, that should be true. Now suppose you have to choose between dust specks and torture 3^^^3 times, one for each person (“so, do we torture individual 27602, or one dust speck on everyone? Now, same question for 27603....).
Then always choosing dust specks is worse, for everyone, than always choosing torture.
So the dust-speck decision becomes worse and worse, the more often you expect to encounter it.
27602 may beg to differ.