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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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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I don't agree. I think accumulation has its merits in principle even if it tends not to have merits in practice.
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