I can think of one situation where sharing your ideas can be dangerous, and it is when you have formulated and proved a conjecture that is hard to synthesize but easy to prove. If you haven't written and submitted a paper, sharing the idea may make you vulnerable to people who write quickly. This happened to a colleague of mine - the other person's paper only acknowledged that she had formulated the conjecture, but not that she had proved it.
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