Peikoff seems to be saying not just that he’s not going to write on something that he hasn’t thought out properly (which is fine), but that he never will write on it (implying that he may never get around to thinking it out properly). In the meantime, people who want to keep up with the developments in his thinking have no option but to pay for lectures (live or recorded), where they listen to him expound non-properly-thought-out ideas.
Of course, the recordings are “for eternity,” too, but audio lecture material is considerably harder to examine and critique than hard copy. Perhaps that’s the point of sharing one’s theoretical speculations in recorded lectures, rather than committing them to print.
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