The claim (mine) that “Attracting and accommodating a wider variety of participants is one reason to think offering a wider variety of fellowships is valuable” is true, but not sufficient for your stronger claim: “If we want more talented people in AI safety we should focus on creating new programs”, which you don’t actually argue for, and which would require a more thorough accounting of relevant factors than you offer here.
The claim (mine) that “Attracting and accommodating a wider variety of participants is one reason to think offering a wider variety of fellowships is valuable” is true, but not sufficient for your stronger claim: “If we want more talented people in AI safety we should focus on creating new programs”, which you don’t actually argue for, and which would require a more thorough accounting of relevant factors than you offer here.