ChristianKl comments on Rationality Quotes: February 2011 - Less Wrong
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Choosing good priors isn't something that's epistemologically fairly trivial.
Using the majority opinion of the human race as a prior is a general strategy that you can defend rationally.
Use it as a prior all you want; but then you have to update on the (rest of the) evidence.