You made a generalisation about all people who say they want to save the world. When you say your comment was all about you, that's not true, because that was a description of other people, including me. And I have read a fair amount on here by people who state that as one of their goals, and I've never thought they were very intolerant of other people because of this - in fact, I remember EY once writing about how he holds other people to a very different standard than himself.
So generalising negatively about me and lots of other people who have formed a goal of trying to do a lot of good in this world, didn't feel justified, and thus a little mean. If you didn't mean that to come across, that's cool.
Benito, it's not about you.
Neither it is about other people on LW who said they are "trying to do a lot of good in this world". The point is, saving the world isn't something that LW invented or first started practicing. People have been trying to save the world, that is, do a lot of good in the world, for a really long time and in many, many different ways. The real consequences of that... vary.
People who were burning witches were trying to save the world from Satan's influence. The communists were trying to save the world from the rapacious maw...
How are you saving the world? Please, let us know!
Whether it is solving the problem of death or teaching rationality, one of the correlated phenomena of being less wrong is making things better. Given the value many of us place on altruism, this extends beyond just ourselves and into that question of, “How can I make The Rest better?” The rest of my community. The rest of my country. The rest of my species. The rest of my world. To word it in a less other-optimizing way: How can I save the world?
So, tell us how you are saving the world. Not how you want to save the world. Not how you plan to. How you are, actively, saving the world. It doesn’t have to be “I invented a friendly AI,” or “I reformed a nation’s gender politics” or “I perfected a cryonics reviving process.” It can be a simple goal (“I taught a child how to recognize when they use ad hominen” or "I stopped using as much water to shower") or a simple action as part of a larger plan (such as “I helped with a breakthrough on reducing gas emissions in cars by five percent”).
If we accept this challenge of saving the world, then let us be open and honest with our progress. Let us put our successes on display and our shortcomings as well, so that both can be recognized, recommended, and, if need be, repaired.
If you are not doing anything to save the world, even something as simple as “learning about global risks” or “encouraging others to research a topic before deciding on it”? Then find something. Find a goal and work for it. Find an act that needs doing and do it.
Then tell us about it.