If you had the option of having your brain sliced up and emulated today, would you take it? You would be among the first EMs.

On the one hand, "you" might have a decisive strategic advantage to shape the future. You will not have this advantage if you delay. On the other hand, it is unclear what complications the emulation process would present. The emulation might not be conscious or "you" in a meaningful sense. I have a general heuristic against getting my brain sliced up into tiny pieces.

I also want to know, what if you knew with certainty that the Emulation wouldn't be conscious, but just a clockwork mechanism that would act according to your values and thought-habits (at digital speeds and with the other advantages to being a digital mind). Accepting would mean your death, but you'd be replaced with a more effective version of you that can shape the future.