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I'm not sure. I think the answer most people give on this has more to do with fairness than rounding to zero. Yeah, it's annoying for me to get a dust speck in my eye, but it's unfair that someone should be tortured for 50 years just to spare me (and 3^^^3 others) from dust specks. I would choose getting a dust speck in my eye over someone else being tortured, and I think most people are similar enough to me that I can assume the same of the other 3^^^3 people.
This matches my intuition on the subject. It also matches my intuition of the problem of Nozick's Utility Monster. Yes, total utility will be maximized if we let the monster eat everyone, but it introduces a large disparity: huge utility for the monster, huge disutility for everyone else.
The question is, is this a "valid value" or a problem? The only way I can see to answer this is to ask if I would self-modify to not caring about fairness, and I don't know the answer.