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Absolutely, contingent on being able to convince myself it's ethical to do so. Give me a moment to do some typing and I'll outline how I think one such conversation sequence would go.
I just caught myself rationalizing ways to prove that deconverting them would be the right thing, so that I could see the results of this experiment.
I caught myself doing more or less the same thing (but for substantially eviller reasons), which is why I asked LW in the first place.