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augh! No, don't do that. (Er... don't not do that... You know what I mean!) Right now I'm in a state of "what the heck did I just commit myself to while I suffered from a terrible moment of sanity? Given my current skills/etc, how am I going to do this?" While trying to avoid, well, retreating from "I will" to "I'll try" or any other form of running away from the problem.
Now I see this and my reaction is not entirely unlike "EEEEEEEEK! I haven't even begun and I've already made it WORSE!"
Save the world? From what, exactly? Black holes? Gamma ray bursts? The eventual expansion of the Sun? UnFriendly Seed AI? Asteroid impacts? Nuclear weapons? Runaway climate change? Peak Oil? The Year 2032 problem? Annoying Christmas songs?
"Make the world a much better place" seems a somewhat less ill-defined command.
I'm positive that most actions that make the world a much better place would be insufficient to deal with whatever threats Eliezer was talking about.
Doing that is just finding a good sounding reason to not save the world.