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This argument does not show that putting dust specks in the eyes of 3^^^3 people is better than torturing one person for 50 years. It shows that putting dust specks in the eyes of 3^^^3 people and then telling them they helped save someone from torture is better than torturing one person for 50 years.
Yes - though it does mean Eliezer has to assume that the reader's implausible state of knowledge is not and will not be shared by many of the 3^^^3.
Dust, it turns out, is not naturally occurring, but is only produced as a byproduct of thought experiments.