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Yeah, I'm tickled by the estimate that so far 0 people have saved the world. How do we know that? The world is still here, after all.
Eliezer has already placed a Go stone on that intersection, it turns out.
As the comments discuss, that was not an extinction event, barring further burdensome assumptions about nuclear winter or positive feedbacks of social collapse.
In any case Wikipedia disagrees with this story.
No, the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations disagrees with this story, and Wikipedia quotes that disagreement. The very next section explains why that disagreement may be incorrect.
Do you have any candidates in mind, or some plausible scenario how the world might have been saved by a single person without achieving due prominence?