Storing information has an inherent cost in resources, and some information might be so meaningless that no matter how abundant those resources are, there will always be a better or more interesting use for them. I’m not sure if that’s true.
“Information” might be an unnatural category in the way you’re using it. Why are the bits encoded in an animal’s DNA worth more than the bits encoded in the structure of a particular rock? Doesn’t taking any action erase some information about the state the world was in before that action?
Storing information has an inherent cost in resources, and some information might be so meaningless that no matter how abundant those resources are, there will always be a better or more interesting use for them. I’m not sure if that’s true.
“Information” might be an unnatural category in the way you’re using it. Why are the bits encoded in an animal’s DNA worth more than the bits encoded in the structure of a particular rock? Doesn’t taking any action erase some information about the state the world was in before that action?
EY might call information bad that prevents pleasant surprise.