I am getting an education in hopes of getting a high-paying job, which I can use to earn large amounts of money and donate to an effective charity. I'm also a vegetarian and an aspiring vegan, but that's really more that I'm failing to make the world a worse place.
What are we doing to make this world a better (epistemically or instrumentally) place?
Some answers to this question are already written in Bragging Threads and other places, but I think they deserve a special emphasis. I think that many smart people are focused on improving themselves, which is a good thing in a long run, but sometimes the world needs some help right now. (Also, there is the failure mode of learning a lot about something, and then actually not applying that knowledge in real life.) Becoming stronger so you can create more good in the future is about the good you will create in the future; but what good are you creating right now?
Rules:
Top-level comments are the things you are doing right now (not merely planning to do once) to improve the world... or a part of the world... or your neighborhood... or simply any small part of the world other than only yourself.
Meta debates go under the "META" comment.