While I would agree that not all portions of h are needed to solve the value problem, I think it’s very plausible that it would take all of h to be certain that you’d solved the value problem. As in, you couldn’t know that you had included everything important unless you knew that you had everything unimportant as well.
Also, I don’t think I’m sympathetic to the idea that a slow takeoff buys you time to correct things. How would you check for inaccuracies? You don’t have a less-flawed version to compare things to; if you did, you’d be using that version. Some inaccuracies will be large and obvious, but that’s rarely, if ever, going to catch the kinds of errors that lead to hyperexistential catastrophe, and will miss many existential catastrophes.
While I would agree that not all portions of h are needed to solve the value problem, I think it’s very plausible that it would take all of h to be certain that you’d solved the value problem. As in, you couldn’t know that you had included everything important unless you knew that you had everything unimportant as well.
Also, I don’t think I’m sympathetic to the idea that a slow takeoff buys you time to correct things. How would you check for inaccuracies? You don’t have a less-flawed version to compare things to; if you did, you’d be using that version. Some inaccuracies will be large and obvious, but that’s rarely, if ever, going to catch the kinds of errors that lead to hyperexistential catastrophe, and will miss many existential catastrophes.