I would predict, based on human nature, that a if the 3^^^3 people were asked if they wanted to inflict a dust speck in each one of their eyes, in exchange for not torturing another individual for 50 years, they would probably vote for dust specks.
I would probably go for specks here. Many people, I predict, are going to get an emotional high out of thinking that their sacrifice will prevent someone from being tortured (while scope insensitivity prevents them from realizing just how small 1/3^^^3 is). If they actually receive a dust speck in the eye in a short enough time interval afterwards, I think that they would have a significant chance of taking it to mean that specks was chosen instead of torture (and thus they would get more of a high after being specked, if they knew why.)
If you polled people in such a way that they wouldn’t get the high, then your answer should be the same as before. Scope insensitivity still kicks in, and people will vote without understanding how big 3^^^3 is (I don’t understand it myself—the description of ‘a 1 followed by a string of zeroes as long as the Bible’ is just so mind-numbingly big I know I can’t comprehend it.)
I would probably go for specks here. Many people, I predict, are going to get an emotional high out of thinking that their sacrifice will prevent someone from being tortured (while scope insensitivity prevents them from realizing just how small 1/3^^^3 is). If they actually receive a dust speck in the eye in a short enough time interval afterwards, I think that they would have a significant chance of taking it to mean that specks was chosen instead of torture (and thus they would get more of a high after being specked, if they knew why.)
If you polled people in such a way that they wouldn’t get the high, then your answer should be the same as before. Scope insensitivity still kicks in, and people will vote without understanding how big 3^^^3 is (I don’t understand it myself—the description of ‘a 1 followed by a string of zeroes as long as the Bible’ is just so mind-numbingly big I know I can’t comprehend it.)