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"For a true Bayesian, information would never have negative expected utility."
Is this true in general? It seems to me that if a Bayesian has limited information handling ability, then they need to give some thought (not too much!) to the risks of being swamped with information and of spending too many resources on gathering information.
I believe that in this situation "true Bayesian" implies unbounded processing power/ logical omniscience.
I suggest that "true Bayesian" is ambiguous enough (this seems to use it in the sense of a human using the principles of Bayes) that some other phrase-- perhaps "unlimited Bayesian"-- would be clearer.