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Starving guests order entirely too much food

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If you walk into a restaurant incredibly hungry, you will confidently order five appetizers, sincerely believing your stomach has quadrupled in size. Projection bias forces you to ridiculously assume that your future self will somehow share the exact extreme, fleeting desires that your vastly compromised present self is currently experiencing.

Starving guests order entirely too much food
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