To a decision-theoretic agent, the value of information is always nonnegative.
A boundary around one’s mind enforced by a norm of not mind-reading people seems useful. When working on a problem, thoughts on that problem are appropriate to reveal, and counterproductive to drown in social graces, but that says little about value of communicating everything that’s feasible to communicate.
A boundary around one’s mind enforced by a norm of not mind-reading people seems useful. When working on a problem, thoughts on that problem are appropriate to reveal, and counterproductive to drown in social graces, but that says little about value of communicating everything that’s feasible to communicate.