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I think it might be possible to patch around this by weighting people by their projected future cycle count. Otherwise, I fear that you may end up with a Repugnant Conclusion even without an adversary -- a very large number of happy emulated people running very slowly would outweigh a smaller number of equally happy people running at human-brain-speed. Of course, this still gives an advantage to the views of those who can afford more computing power, but it's a smaller advantage. And perhaps our CEV would be to at least somewhat equalize the available computing power per person.
Of course, the slowest possible clock speed is ... none, or one tick per lifetime of the universe or something, so we'd all end up as frozen snapshots.