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.)