komponisto comments on Rationality Quotes: February 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: komponisto 03 February 2011 03:44:59AM 4 points [-]

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.