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Yes, I now regret making this mistake at the dawn of the site and regret more having sneezed the mistake onto other people.
Had you used small and large numbers instead of the terms torture and dust specks, the whole post would have been trivial. I learned a fair bit about my own thinking in the aftermath of reading that infamous post, and I suspect I am not the only one. I even intentionally used politically charged terms in my own post.
Username explicitly linked to torture vs. dust specks as a case where it makes sense to use torture as an example. Username is just objecting to using torture for general decision theory examples where there's no particular reason to use that example.