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Are you saying that 3^^^3 is not sufficiently large? Then consider 3^^^^3.
Whatever epsilon you assign to dust specks, there's still a yet larger number such that this number of dust specks is worse than torture. Everything else is just accounting that we can't feasibly calculate anyway.
He (and I) deny this statement is true. There is no sum of sufferings that add up to torture. It is analogous to the fact that the sum of a countably infinite number of countably infinite sets is not as large as the set of real numbers.
I don't know why Logos insists that logarithmic captures this idea.