Known unknown: Section 13, Where this breaks, and what is unknown: "The planner can only bound it, phase it…"

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The planner can only bound it, phase it and buy options.

What do you do with a step that has no reference class, such as a first accelerator cluster or a first region on a new continent? Bound it, phase it, buy options is all the paper offers. What else has worked?

Author's note 12 on Section 13, Where this breaks, and what is unknown. Reply below; if this settles into a change to the text, an editor will carry it over with credit (see HOW_IT_GROWS.md).