To exemplify this let’s assume there were 100 entities. At a certain point the universe will cease to provide enough resources to sustain 100 entities. So either the ruling FAI (friendly AI) is going to kill one entity or reduce the mental capabilities of all 100. This will continue until all of them are either killed or reduced to a shadow of their former self. This is a horrible process that will take a long time. I think you could call this torture until the end of the universe.
Gradually reducing mental processing speed, approaching the universes heatdeath (ie. at a point where nothing else of interest is occuring) and death (painlessly) are analogous.
Neither of those options is, in any sense, torture.
They’re just death.
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Gradually reducing mental processing speed, approaching the universes heatdeath (ie. at a point where nothing else of interest is occuring) and death (painlessly) are analogous.
Neither of those options is, in any sense, torture. They’re just death.
So I’m really not sure what you’re getting at.