November 1st, 2025 | Ryan Tyler

The Rise Of Transhuman Conservatives

Humanity's transcendence is inevitable, but conservatives risk not having a say in where it takes us.

Everyone seems mesmerized by the idea of colonizing Mars and eventually more habitable planets. However, I can't help but think it's all a big waste of time. We're spending billions on space exploration and technology that could sustain human life on shitholes like Mars, when we should be spending it on more important and transformational things. Governments and industry are spending billions on figuring out how humans can eat, shit, sleep, consume, and fornicate on other planets—all while overlooking the fundamental problems that stand in the way.

The universe is a closed energy system. The fundamental elements of our existence are absurd. Life, in and of itself, is idiotic. From the very moment we are born, we require energy. Most animals born in nature require the same, so they immediately begin hunting for more energy. Why? So they can expend that energy to find more energy. This whole cycle becomes the purpose of life. Everything that happens in between is mere filler.

Life is nothing more than eating, shitting, sleeping, and expending energy to find more energy—to expend more energy to find more energy, forever, until we die. That is fucking stupid. It's almost like this reality was designed this stupid so we would want to get out of it. This is why so many people fantasize about heaven and an afterlife. 

At the moment, humans require an astonishing amount of energy just to remain comfortable. If you disagree with me on this, I encourage you to go sit in your backyard for 24 hours as an experiment. I want you to sit in your backyard and do absolutely nothing. I want you to stop expending and consuming all energy. If it's summer, the first few hours might be pretty relaxing. You might even be able to catch a nice sunset. Six hours in, and at nightfall, you might start to get hungry and cold. However, since you won't be expending or consuming any energy, you can't pitch a tent, walk around, light a fire, or eat anything. All you can do is sit there or lay down—nothing else.

You get the idea.

The first consequence of not feeding our biological containment units is discomfort. This discomfort eventually becomes more intense, until it evolves into pure suffering. For different people, this evolution can take longer. The act of not expending any energy at all eventually becomes dangerous for anyone, but the mere act of staying comfortable requires exorbitant amounts of energy on its own, which comes in multiple forms: thermal, kinetic, etc..

The point I'm trying to make is simple. Before we waste billions of dollars and hours on trying to find technology that could accommodate the idiotic aspects of our existence, we should be spending those billions on transcending and fixing our biological nature. Once we've fixed ourselves, only then should we be focusing on colonizing other worlds.

Conservatives in particular seem to be most disturbed by the concepts of transhumanism. However, if there is a purpose behind our intelligence, I would imagine it involves transcendence, singularity, and self-directed evolution. If there is a God, why else would he have endowed us with consciousness and intellect in the first place? If a higher power had the intention to keep us locked inside this prison, it wouldn't have given us the capacity to escape it.

Genetics And Editing

The technologies that allow us to edit our genes are evolving fast. It is currently limited to single-gene editing for certain diseases, but progress is happening quickly and AI will likely speed it up. Recently, scientist in Japan have found a way to reverse Downs Syndrome by deleting the extra chromosome that causes it. Despite being in its early phase, this is one small step toward curing most genetic diseases and—eventually—most of our biological setbacks.

Using things like CRISPR to edit genes in humans, while they are alive, will probably become something normal within the next 30 years. Editing and pre-selecting the DNA and features of unborn babies could happen sooner.

We'll be forced at some point to tackle the ethical dilemmas involved in all of this, but conservatives are going to fall behind if they don't start opening up to what is truly a “progressive” mindset on what it means to be human. We'll also be faced with a new reality when it comes to transgenderism. I imagine one of the first gender swaps using gene editing will happen in the next 20 years. At some point, many of these changes could even become reversable.

Fast forward one hundred years, I can almost guarantee humans will be fully customizable and immune to all aging.

As birthrates continue to plummet, most of these technologies are coming at the perfect time. It's almost like destiny has finally stepped up to the plate to ensure humanity's survival into the future. As we teeter on the same cusp as other failed civilizations, gene editing, longevity, and a disease-free future have the potential to launch humanity past the Great Filter. That is, of course, if we don't let AI, greed, and corporatism destroy us along the way.

Before we set out to colonize other planets, we will need to make our bodies more indestructible, more energy efficient, and less constrained by the biological fascism that has imprisoned us since the dawn of time. Take that to the bank. Put that in your book of quotes.

Robotics And Artificial Intelligence

Every human's evolution out of labour is inevitable now. We will become strict consumers within the next 20 years, whether we like it or not. Our kids probably won't be working office jobs and would be better suited to go into physical trades. Once robots become enshrined with artificial intelligence and the same physical capabilities as humans, those jobs will go next.

Conservatives have a greater tendency to ignore or deny this reality. That isn't going to bode well for their offspring, or for future generations.

If you have children, you need to prepare them now. You need to set aside the expectation that AI and robotics are going to disappear, or that some apocalyptic event will reset everything. These technologies are here to stay and every corporation is investing in them. McDonalds will have fully automated restaurants by 2050; Amazon will be using autonomous delivery systems, like self-driving trucks and drones before then; and by 2075, robots will be electricians, masons, engineers, and physical builders.

If you're not investing in AI and robotics, you're missing the boat—or the spaceship.

Before you keep reading, remember, this isn't financial advice. If you're going to make the choice to take financial risks, that is on you. If you do anything in stocks, commodities, or crypto—there are risks and you are responsible for that. None of this will get you rich quick. There will be corrections and market meltdowns. That fact is as inevitable as your future unemployment.

Unlike the internet and dotcoms, AI and robotics are far from hitting a brick wall. The growth in this sector is almost limitless, whereas the growth in the dotcom industry was not. All those hyping up a so-called AI bubble don't know what they're talking about. However, like I said, there will be some stalls and setbacks that could cause dramatic dips, corrections, and meltdowns along the way. The biggest risks will be with companies that solely sell personal AI assistants and nothing else. That market will become over-saturated soon.

Stay away from AI software companies that don't offer a larger breadth of services. If there is a bubble, it will be in that segment of the industry.

Advancements in AI and robotics have decades remaining. Investing in these companies and this industry could set you and your children up for greater wealth over the next 50 years. This includes the energy industries that would be responsible for supplying this growth. Along with physical assets like data centres and servers, investments in nuclear and clean energy could make you more wealthy.

Pinning down the materials required for all of this will also better guide your investment strategy going into the future.

As for transcendence, AI and robotics will get us there. Alone, that aspect of the industry could fuel even greater growth as people aim for longevity, robotic limbs, and various steps toward complete singularity. As AI and robotics expand into health and medicine, we will start seeing massive growth in those industries as well. We will also start to see rapid advancements that could take us closer to immortality and a near-zero death rate within a couple of decades.

The Political Shift

In Canada's last election, we saw the Conservative Party hit a historical high in its vote count. What we also saw was a slight shift of the union and labour vote toward Conservatives. In my opinion, that was only the start of something bigger.

As we start seeing AI and robots consume more jobs, unions are going to be looking for leaders willing to stop our progress toward this inevitable future.

Sadly, as much as I want to see conservatism rise in its current form, parties like the Conservative Party will begin to attract more of the labour vote in the future if they stay conservative on everything discussed here—which will be great in the short term, but detrimental in the long term. As time goes on, many within the labour movement will become more “conservative” on keeping labour and jobs for humans. If Conservatives remain “regressive” on transhumanism and AI, they will attract more votes from those unusual places. However, it will be temporary.

The fact is, our move toward a universal basic income is inevitable. No one knows what it will really look like, but we know it's inevitable. If conservative parties fall into the trap of opposing AI and the inevitable realities that come with it, their long-term sustainability will faulter. They'll win some majority governments in the interim and try to curtail the growth in this industry, but they won't be doing themselves or humanity any favours.

I understand that many conservatives have a faith that already promises all of this after death, but if the lives of their great grandchildren matter, it's time to think differently.

Artificial intelligence and robots will win this fight, and if conservatives are on the wrong side of it, they will get obliterated and lose the ability to influence what comes next. They won't have a say in any of it, unless they pivot.

The future of conservatism will be in conserving our human essence and our personal freedoms throughout this journey.

We Need To Leave This Place

The bottom line is that humans need to leave their biology behind. To some of you, that is a horrifying concept. I'm not talking about leaving behind empathy and whatever you view as your “soul”, I'm talking about freeing it. I'm talking about leaving our bodies and entering a whole new type of reality and existence.

Through all of this, I'm confident we'll find a way to keep our essence intact with our personal freedoms. That could be the key to transcendence and the role of conservatism. None of us want to lose our humanity, but no one said we had to leave it behind. If you believe you have a soul, this isn't about losing it. It's about letting it escape the confines of the material world.

On a long enough timeline, leaving this planet will also become inevitable. We can't stay here forever. Our sun will eventually die out, our planet may hit its final life cycle, or a cosmic calamity could destroy it. In our current form, our ability to survive anywhere else is very limited.

If we are going to talk about our continued existence, we need to talk about this and embrace the concepts of transhumanism. Jumping on a spaceship right now and flying to the nearest Earth-like planet isn't possible. Most scientists aren't even sure we could survive very long on Mars, let alone on a spaceship for several years.

We are investing billions on trying to take our current selves into space, when we should be investing billions in changing our biology first.

Humans need to become more energy efficient, more indestructible, more customizable, and more dymanic to survive. We need to get past the absurd cycle of biological existence. By the very nature of the universe, all biological life is inherently parasitic. We eat, shit, reproduce, and consume. Once there's nothing left to consume, we find a new host to destroy. This can't continue. It was never supposed to.

If you believe something gave us our intelligence, what other path could there be but transcendence? Even so, if you don't believe in souls, a creator, or any of that stuff—you must see the benefits of escaping your biological confinement.

Transhumanism, like conservatism, is about freedom. The two belong together.