Part of the answer is that I was dumb and I should have realized even at the time of writing the original comment that the writing is not good enough.
But the main reason is that the posts try bridge a pretty wide inferential gap. When I read the first transcripts, I felt like they were good enough because I was reading with the eyes of “this would be a reasonable explainer to myself from three months ago, I understand the points pretty well”. But on further consideration, I realized that this level of explanation will not be useful for basically any other reader. I didn’t know how to do the more careful explanation through voice recording—perhaps this is a skill issue, but I think that voice transcripts are generally much better for writing things up for yourself than for a wider audience. So I needed to rewrite the whole piece more carefully by hand. The notes from the transcription were still useful as a skeleton to build on, but I think basically every single sentence got replaced by the end.
Part of the answer is that I was dumb and I should have realized even at the time of writing the original comment that the writing is not good enough.
But the main reason is that the posts try bridge a pretty wide inferential gap. When I read the first transcripts, I felt like they were good enough because I was reading with the eyes of “this would be a reasonable explainer to myself from three months ago, I understand the points pretty well”. But on further consideration, I realized that this level of explanation will not be useful for basically any other reader. I didn’t know how to do the more careful explanation through voice recording—perhaps this is a skill issue, but I think that voice transcripts are generally much better for writing things up for yourself than for a wider audience. So I needed to rewrite the whole piece more carefully by hand. The notes from the transcription were still useful as a skeleton to build on, but I think basically every single sentence got replaced by the end.