I wouldn’t worry about it, 50 is plenty for now. My hope is that the first cycle will cultivate stronger lateral thinking and expand your comfort zone enough that you’ll be able to come up with plenty more on the next cycle.
There’s a larger point I want to make which is that the reason one wants to be a rationalist is to win in general. If there were a particular one or two domains you care about, then applying force on those domains will get you more for your dollar than working on rationality as such (unless the particular domain has something to do with minds). Therefore, to make maximal use out of rationality you have to be solving lots of disparate problems, which requires that you notice lots of bugs to solve in the first place.
Seconding Qiaochu’s point to an extent: huge families of bugs can all be manifestations of one “real” bug at the bottom. On the other hand I have the sense that the best way to get started on these “real” bugs is to solve some of their small consequences, so being able to fractionate bugs into specific pieces is still useful.
I wouldn’t worry about it, 50 is plenty for now. My hope is that the first cycle will cultivate stronger lateral thinking and expand your comfort zone enough that you’ll be able to come up with plenty more on the next cycle.
There’s a larger point I want to make which is that the reason one wants to be a rationalist is to win in general. If there were a particular one or two domains you care about, then applying force on those domains will get you more for your dollar than working on rationality as such (unless the particular domain has something to do with minds). Therefore, to make maximal use out of rationality you have to be solving lots of disparate problems, which requires that you notice lots of bugs to solve in the first place.
Seconding Qiaochu’s point to an extent: huge families of bugs can all be manifestations of one “real” bug at the bottom. On the other hand I have the sense that the best way to get started on these “real” bugs is to solve some of their small consequences, so being able to fractionate bugs into specific pieces is still useful.