wwwdocstoccomprofilepaulbudds asked: Ok I have a good question. I am pro Singularity so I ask this with lots of respect. Will technologically inspired improvements in individuals psychology mess with free will? And will that be a price worth paying for health?

I think it is hard to say but there is a lot of potential to mess with free will inadvertently. Even with media today people are being barraged mentally with various indoctrination of what to wear and how to be. So with the potential of having chips and other enhancements to our biology it would open up the potential to hacking those enhancements. So if for example, I have a chip in my brain connecting me to the Internet I could get “malware” to change my opinion, outlook, or mood potentially. 

When it comes to paying for health many technologies to extend life and improve health in a lot of ways will probably have to be financially difficult to attain for the sheer fact of population growth if people were able to easily live to 150+ years of age. Sadly this may be the case. But I like to look on the upside. It would drive us to explore near earth-like planets faster. ;)

Thanks for the insightful question!