However...
How much are people calling for participation thinking that? To the extent some are, did they confabulate rationalizations for their politically motivated call for participation, did they think about how to achieve things and then conclude it useful to seek out and enlist poets and the like, or what?
Well, I don't know what the SIAI people were thinking. It's possible, for example, that they were thinking "let's just get everyone we can, the more the merrier, filtering out specific professions is not worth the effort". But the original article implies that the Singularity movement does not need liberal arts participants at all; at least, not in their professional capacity:
...I would call on you to participate as a human being, not an artist. If your artistry has something to say, it will express itself naturally in your responses, without you
Today's post, We Don't Really Want Your Participation was originally published on 10 September 2007. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
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