Imagine that there is one tortured for 50 years and then free of any dust speck for the next 3^^^3 years.
If I understand the dilemma, in your most recent phrasing, it's this: A person who lives 3^^^3 years either:
a) has to suffer a dustspeck per year
b) has to suffer 50 years of torture at some point in that time, then I assume gets the memory of that torture deleted from his mind and his mind's state restored to what it was before the torture (so that he doesn't suffer further disutility from that memory or the broken mind-state, he only has to suffer the torture itself), He lives the remaining 3^^^3 years dustspeck-free.
If we don't know what his own preferences are, and have no way of asking him, what should we choose on his behalf?
But what does this have to do with Felix?
If we don't know what his own preferences are, and have no way of asking him, what should we choose on his behalf?
It is argued in the said sequence, how much better is to have 1 tortured for 50 years, than 3^^^3 people having slight discomfort.
Which preferences are in question now?
I laughed: SMBC comic.