Candidate Moral Imperatives

Do good. Achieve good. Maximize good.
Optimize everything.
Do wondrous deeds.
Be good effectively. Waste no motions. With every move, become closer to achieving the goal.
Make progress. Invest effort where gains will accrue.
Do the things you think you should be doing.
Do the least total harm. Prevent large harms.
Prevent bad and insufficient good. Prioritize preventing frequent and severe bads.
Keep bad things small and infrequent.
Enable the least harm to triumph over greater harms.
Signal your moral character more effectively.
Summon good.
Avoid going to hell, except to bring people out or to turn it into a well run mountain resort.
Party on responsibly, dudes.
Create good. Create more and better good.
Cause the change you wish to see in the world.
Reduce the expected magnitude of potential harms.
Abstain from vice.
Be cautious in ever doing things that you consider sinful or that others widely considered to be sins.
Don't just not do the thing, but leave a safe margin around doing the thing.
Preserve good. Destroy bad.
Act so as to best serve universal well-being.
Hack at the sources of bad.


Be good. Be good better. Be good ambitiously. Be virtuous. Be great. Become better.
Be so fucking rad.
Build good character.
Become an ideal. Do god's job. Become a savior.
Don't become a grotesque parody of yourself.
Become a superlative example of righteousness.
Don't be a dick.
Attach the self to meaning.
Continually strike envy in the hearts of men with the weight of your philosophical authority on righteousness.
Be reasonable, rational, prudent, wise.
Become the person.
Become the forerunner.
Find ways to become better.
Be less than the regular amount of terrible for a human.
Become proof that greater un-imagined goods are possible.
Be just. Be scrupulous.
Be nice. Be excellent to each other. Be charitable.
Learn to want to follow whatever the correct standards are.
Learn skills.
Preserve parts of yourself which may be good.
Hold yourself to a higher standard.
Become good enough to justify the continued existence of the places you inhabit.
Don't continue becoming not good, if that's what you're doing.
Become terrifyingly formidable.
Become a person who seems to hail from a culture with greater moral and philosophical authority.
Become better, even knowing that better might not be good enough.
If you're an ok person, and you want to improve in some ways, and other people would want you to improve in those ways, become that person.
Become a person whose words show that you bear a great wealth of careful reasoning and relevant practice.

Cultivate a hunger to improve.
Commit to doing good. Pledge yourself to good. Comply with your past declarations of intent to do good.
Regain the ability to respond to the meaning of things.
Try to try.
Live in your name.
Adopt important responsibilities.
Cultivate an intrusive conscience.
Set your heart on a pilgrimage.
Maintain a desire to improve.
Do good relentlessly.
Don't look for reasons to do bad.
Act as though you care strongly about things that affect lots of people, even when you don't.
Occasionally cultivate a motivated disposition insensitive to goal feasibility.

Reinforce good.
Help people to be good.
Coordinate with good. Affiliate with causes that are trying to do good.
Promote participation on solving important problems. Prioritize important topics that are hard to have opinions on.
Become a rally point for good.
Create places for people to do good. Build reputable organizations for achieving good.
Seek and amplify the good processes that created the good parts of you.
Find and amplify the process that generates entities that heed meta-level advice such as this.
Evaluate good anew.

Go meta first.
Seek whence.
Act in a way that greater commands your own endorsement.
Don’t do things that prevent people from offering you good opportunities.
Don’t do things that spoil people's ability to reach the Pareto frontier.
If you should simply do well what you were meant to do, only figure this out by being meant to figure well.
Do correctly whatever you have been (self-)created to do.
Do things for which you and members of your outgroup would both want to be remembered.
Do the things which a better version of you wishes you would do.
Act by universalizable principles.
Act by principles which everyone can rationally will that you act by.
Act by principles which no one can not reasonably reject that everyone act by.

First take the plank out of your own eye.
Keep your identity small.
Make no graven image capable of suffering.
Reduce suffering generally.
Reduce existential risk for anything which should exist.
Find new ways to quantitatively estimate how good some possible courses of action are.
Prevent the heat death of the universe.
Enter situations where you can act decisively.
Do not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
Write fresh scripture.
Stay out of your own way.
Don't shoot yourself in the foot.
Eat mostly plants.
Don't believe everything you hallucinate.
Help people to analyze the failures of their self-analysis.
Let Alicorn manage consent among her own mental sub-agents.
Try to identify what things might pave a slippery, sloping road to hell.
Harvest baboon organs.
Analyze incentives producing coordination problems.
Over-chlorinate not thy neighbor's pool.

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