Houshalter comments on Human errors, human values - Less Wrong
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But remove human agency and imagine the torturer isn't a person. Say you can remove a dust speck from your eye, but the procedure has a 1/3\^\^\^3 chance of failing and giving you injuries equivalent to torturing you for 50 years.
Now imagine 3\^\^\^3 make a similar choice. One of them will likely fail the procedure and get tortured.