People don’t get angry based on people asking them questions with clear obvious answers. If someone gives you a question with a clear and obvious answer, you usually just give them the clear and obvious answer.
People don’t get angry when they get asked to answer “what’s 2+2?”
But take note that it wasn’t part of the initial question as Yudkowsky presented it.
The effect of hospital upkeep on saved lives isn’t a known known and it’s not explicit in the question of how high it is. That doesn’t imply that a person dealing with the question should assume it to be zero. Decision making usually happens with incomplete information.
People don’t get angry based on people asking them questions with clear obvious answers. If someone gives you a question with a clear and obvious answer, you usually just give them the clear and obvious answer.
People don’t get angry when they get asked to answer “what’s 2+2?”
The effect of hospital upkeep on saved lives isn’t a known known and it’s not explicit in the question of how high it is. That doesn’t imply that a person dealing with the question should assume it to be zero. Decision making usually happens with incomplete information.