A little bit of both, I suppose. One needs to define “harm” in a way which is true to the spirit of the prisoner’s dilemma. The underlying question is whether one can set up a prisoner’s dilemma between a past version of the self and a future version of the self.
Yep. I’ll bite that bullet until shown a good reason I should not.
I suppose that’s the nub of the disagreement. I don’t believe it’s possible to do anything in 2010 to harm Isaac Newton.
Is this a disagreement about metaphysics, or about how best to define the word ‘harm’?
A little bit of both, I suppose. One needs to define “harm” in a way which is true to the spirit of the prisoner’s dilemma. The underlying question is whether one can set up a prisoner’s dilemma between a past version of the self and a future version of the self.