Hal Finney does us a great service by articulating "Philosophical Majoritarianism": On most issues, the average opinion of humanity will be a better and less biased guide to the truth than my own judgment. … Given that we have … biases pushing us towards overconfidence …, compensating for these biases requires that we give substantial preference to majoritarianism and only depart from it for very strong reasons. … If I were motivated by overconfidence bias then I would think this is the last position I would want to support. So … to the extent that the crowd disagrees with philosophical majoritarianism, accepting the principle may nevertheless be justified.