If you opt to remove the SPECKS, you would have to change some law of nature or some property of matter, which will have other consequences for the amount of suffering in this world. As you cannot reliably predict or calculate those consequences, you cannot solve this problem.
> I'll go ahead and reveal my answer now: Robin Hanson was correct, I do think that TORTURE is the obvious option, and I think the main instinct behind SPECKS is scope insensitivity.