I’ve added a wildcard, certainly, but I haven’t changed the game. Say I’m standing there, lever in hand. While I can’t be certain, I can fairly safely assume that if I went person to person and asked, the vast majority of those 3^^^3 would be personally willing to suffer a dust speck to save one person’s torture. So I’m not necessarily polling, I’m just conjecturing. With this in mind, I choose specks.
[If I were to poll people, every now and then I would probably come across a Cold Hard Ratinoalist who said, “well, I’m happy to take the speck, but I have to consider the potential disutility to all these people if I said ‘dust’....”
And I would reply, “That’s not what I asked you! Let them worry about that. Get over yourself, shut up, and vote!”]
But you’ve changed the question.
I’ve added a wildcard, certainly, but I haven’t changed the game. Say I’m standing there, lever in hand. While I can’t be certain, I can fairly safely assume that if I went person to person and asked, the vast majority of those 3^^^3 would be personally willing to suffer a dust speck to save one person’s torture. So I’m not necessarily polling, I’m just conjecturing. With this in mind, I choose specks.
[If I were to poll people, every now and then I would probably come across a Cold Hard Ratinoalist who said, “well, I’m happy to take the speck, but I have to consider the potential disutility to all these people if I said ‘dust’....”
And I would reply, “That’s not what I asked you! Let them worry about that. Get over yourself, shut up, and vote!”]