Is the problem of feeling terribly ashamed to accept accomodation without payment or compensation solved or this a test for openness / extroversion I just failed? :) There is nothing I hate more than getting favors and feeling obligated.

No shrug

But, I did get my girlfriend to use it for school. :D

I'm saying that I think the original quote (which I did think was good) would have been improved qua Rationality Quote by removing the specific political content from it. (Much like the "Is Nixon a pacifist?" problem would have been improved by coming up with an example that didn't involve Republicans.)

Because it is often easy to detect the operation of motivated belief formation in others, we tend to disbelieve the conclusions reached in this way, without pausing to see whether the evidence might in fact justify them. Until around 1990 I believed, with most of my friends, that on a scale of evil from 0 to 10 (the worst), Communism scored around 7 or 8. Since the recent revelations I believe that 10 is the appropriate number. The reason for my misperception of the evidence was not an idealistic belief that Communism was a worthy ideal that had been betrayed by actual Communists. In that case, I would simply have been victim of wishful thinking or self-deception. Rather, I was misled by the hysterical character of those who claimed all along that Communism scored 10. My ignorance of their claims was not entirely irrational. On average, it makes sense to discount the claims of the manifestly hysterical. Yet even hysterics can be right, albeit for the wrong reasons. Because I sensed and still believe that many of these fierce anti-Communists would have said the same regardless of the evidence, I could not believe that what they said did in fact correspond to the evidence. I made the mistake of thinking of them as a clock that is always one hour late rather than as a broken clock that shows the right time twice a day.

Jon Elster, Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences, Cambridge, 2007, pp. 136-137, n. 16

Libgen doesn't seem able to get it, and my university proxy can't either; sorry.

I'm looking for the following paper:

Carlos Santiago Nino, Some confusions around Kelsen’s concept of validity, Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 357-377.

It's available on Jstor, but although my university subscription usually allows me to download papers from that database, I don't seem to have access to this particular one. If anyone can get it for me, I'd be very grateful.

A passion to make the world a better place is a fine reason to study social psychology. Sometimes, however, researchers let their ideals or their political beliefs cloud their judgment, such as in how they interpret their research findings. Social psychology can only be a science if it puts the pursuit of truth above all other goals. When researchers focus on a topic that is politically charged, such as race relations or whether divorce is bad for children, it is important to be extra careful in making sure that all views (perhaps especially disagreeable ones, or ones that go against established prejudices) are considered and that the conclusions from research are truly warranted.

Roy Baumeister & Brad Bushman, Social Psychology and Human Nature, Belmont, 2008, p. 13

This image was helpful. Having done a fair amount of reading into which types of practices improve one's lifespan the most, I'd like to use my intuitions to draft a loose list of which sorts of interventions extend the average resident-of-a-develop-nation's lifespan the most, per unit of effort expended.

From most to least impact per unit of effort expended:

• Wash your hands frequently. Decreases risk of death from: influenza, septicemia, and other infections (~4% of yearly deaths in the US).
• Encourage your employer to buy a defibrillator, or, as a distant second, encourage your employer to allow your team to take a day off for CPR training. Decreases risk from: heart attack (~5% of yearly deaths in the US).
• Have a sober designated driver. Decreases risk from: vehicular accidents (~2% of yearly deaths in US).
• Make sustainable improvements to your diet and/or exercise regimen on the margins. Decreases risk from: cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes, and other causes (>40% of yearly deaths in the US).
• If applicable, quit smoking. This would be #1 on this list, except for the fact that it seems like a very hard thing for people to do. Decreases risk from: respiratory diseases, many cancers, cardiovascular diseases, and other causes (>50% of yearly deaths in the US).
• Make sure that your vaccination record is up to date. Some vaccines, such as those for HPV and yearly strains of influenza, are optional, yet highly beneficial. Decreases risk from: various infectious diseases (~5% of yearly deaths in the US).
• If applicable, quit recreational drug use. My intuition is that the benefit-to-effort ratio here presumably depends quite a lot on the drug. (~1.5% of yearly deaths in the US, not including deaths from problems indirectly caused by drug use, such as cardiovascular disease).

The actionable items listed above are the big ones, and I feel like there's a notable gap between those items list above this point, and those below this point, in terms of effectiveness per effort expended. Continuing on:

• Wear sunscreen when skiing, hiking, going to the beach, and so on. Reduces risk from: melanoma. Also reduces the risk of developing a carcinoma, which is non-lethal, but is ridiculously common (~0.4% of yearly deaths in the US).
• Be pickier about your sexual partners. Use condoms, and use them properly. Reduces risk from: viral hepatitis, HIV (~0.5-1% of yearly deaths in the US).
• Decrease alcohol consumption. Reduces risk from liver problems (~1% of yearly deaths in the US).
• If applicable, sell your motor bike, and acquire a safer means of transportation. Reduces risk from: vehicular accidents (~2% of yearly deaths in the US).
• Take a driver's safety course (this may make you eligible for insurance discounts, too). Reduces risk from: vehicular accidents (~2% of yearly deaths in the US).

I expect that there's another appreciable gap in the effort-to-value ratio between ideas listed above and below this point:

• Follow the advice on supplements given here. Reduces risk from: cardiovascular disease, and other causes (~31% of yearly deaths in the US).
• If applicable, move to a safer area. Reduces risk from: homicide (~0.6% of yearly deaths in the US).
• Brush and floss daily. I'm not quite sure how I feel about this one.
• Apply sunscreen every day. Reduces risk from: melanoma. Also reduces the risk of developing a carcinoma, which is non-lethal, but occurs in common (~0.4% of yearly deaths in the US).

Also, there are a few things that seem helpful, but don't fit into this list in an obvious way. Cryonics, paying attention to your body, and taking care of your existing health problems are good examples of this.

What automatic tracker did you use? I would like to find out how I`m spending my own time online as well

This seems strangely averse to bad outcomes to me. Are you taking into account that the ratio between the goodness of the best possible experiences and the badness of the worst possible experiences (per second, and per year) should be much closer to 1:1 than the ratio of the most intense per second experiences we observe today, for reasons discussed in this post?