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.
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.
Take off every 'quote'! You know what you doing. For great insight. Move 'quote'.
And if you don't: