What if it were a repeatable choice?
Suppose you choose dust specks, say, 1,000,000,000 times. That's a considerable amount of torture inflicted on 3^^^3 people. I suspect that you could find the number of times equivalent to torturing each of thoes 3^^^3 people 50 years, and that number would be smaller than 3^^^3. In other words, choose the dust speck enough times, and more people would be tortured effectually for longer than if you chose the 50-year torture an equivalent number of times.
If that math is correct, I'd have to go with the torture, not the dust specks.
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Torture. See Norcross: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~norcross/ComparingHarms.pdf
Your link is 404ing. Is http://spot.colorado.edu/~norcross/Comparingharms.pdf the same one?