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We need to attract ire in a unique way that distinguishes us from atheists, transhumanists, materialists, libertarians, singularitarians, pick-up artists, social progressives, polyamorous people, Asperger's-spectrum people, and drug-positive people. What irritating thing can we do that no one else does?
We tell people to read Sequences a lot. Maybe we will be "sequencedorks" :-|
Well, if the Singularity is "the Rapture for nerds" then some aspects of Less Wrong could well be "the Prosperity Gospel for nerds".
That would be a good term if you were trying to insult it, since the "Prosperity Gospel" is an ultra-heresy...
One person's heresy is another person's strongly held beliefs. (Although some heresies are more high-status than others. Prosperity Gospel is a pretty low-status one as heresies go.)
Most heresies don't overtly contravene canon text, though (see for instance Matthew 19:21-30, the tale of Lazarus, and so on).
"Anticipators". I want to cheat and get someone to call us that.
We are among (aka "with" aka "con-") those those who have read the Sequences, so maybe... Consequentialists?
Oops, already taken.
"Sequencers"