According to Yudkowsky, letting people die when you could save them is morally equivalent to killing them. I'm glad, because otherwise it would have taken a lot of effort to kill as many people as I wanted.
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(My actual reasoning is that if I become a very successful person and philanthropist people will not only not get the idea "torturing intelligent people is a bad way to get social goods", they will get the opposite idea, in a "suffering gave you strength" way)
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(A combination of this and specifically feeling that, if you make decisions that can reasonably be expected to reduce a person's social utility to zero, you don't get to complain when they don't provide social utility. Ever.)
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I don't know that I believe that, but Yud does. I just think that there are people who are capable of helping others and people who aren't. Of the people who are, these are in turn more worthy of help than the people who aren't because of a bootstrapping effect that's ignored.
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