No surprise that people on the forum seem to think #4 is the right answer (although they did acknowledge this is a valid consideration). But a lot of it was “this is so cheap that this is probably still the right answer” and “we should be humble and not violate the intuition people have that all lives are equal”.
I posted this on the EA forum a couple of weeks ago—https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/7WKiW4fTvJMzJwPsk/adverse-selection-in-minimizing-cost-per-life-saved
No surprise that people on the forum seem to think #4 is the right answer (although they did acknowledge this is a valid consideration). But a lot of it was “this is so cheap that this is probably still the right answer” and “we should be humble and not violate the intuition people have that all lives are equal”.