CuSithBell comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong
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In other words, this is not entirely correct:
In this case, it might be (epistemically) correct to class them as irrational (with some probability, etc.), given the information you have about them.
Similarly, if someone draws a card at random from a standard 52-card deck, your degree of credence that it is the seven of diamonds should be 1/52 - it wouldn't be correct to be more confident than that, even if in actuality it IS the seven of diamonds, as this is information you do not have access to.
(ETA: I'm speaking abstractly here - making no comment on rational beliefs about cryonics.)