Lumifer comments on Estimate the Cost of Immortality - Less Wrong
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Informationally equivalent = plays a role in the flow of information within the system that is equivalent to the role of money in the flow of information within economy.
Surely it does -- it magically made you pay attention to it :-P
Ok, I don't see how that applied to the examples in question unless you expand the meaning of "equivalent" so broadly that it becomes meaningless.