Vladimir_Nesov comments on Open Thread: July 2010, Part 2 - Less Wrong
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And from this I can't infer whether communication succeeded or you are just making a social sound (not that it's very polite of me to remark this).
I first thought you had a problem with me making the number -1 000 000 from nowhere. Later I realized you meant that to some people it might not be obvious that the utility of 50 years of torture is the average utility per second time the number of seconds.