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CFAR's Valentine manages to have a very high charisma. He also manages to get out of his way to tell people not to believe him too much and explicetly that that he's not certain.
In http://lesswrong.com/lw/mp3/proper_posture_for_mental_arts/ he suggests:
Having this strong sense of something worth to protect seems to be more important than believing that individual ideas are necessarily correct.
You don't develop a strong sense of something worth by doing debaising techniques but at the same time it's a major part of rationality!CFAR and rationality!HPMOR. At the same time there are people in this community plagued by akrasia who don't have that strong sense on an emotional level.