Welcome to the first episode of the Stoa Podcast! This episode is a brief (and potentially chaotic) introduction to our inception at Columbia University as well as an opportunity to hear a bit about the founders: Perry Sidhu, Jonathan Karten, and Prakhar Gupta.
00:00 Begin.
7:08 The 'Steel Man'
8:30 Steel manning dangerous individuals.
9:40 Suspend your own position.
10:58 Separating the idea from the individual.
12:26 Steel manning the opposite.
14:10 The University and acquiescing to student demands.
17:01 Beginning of our Journey.
18:37 Jonathan's GS Story.
19:15 Prakhar's GS Story.
27:00 Perry's GS Story.
32:24: Challenging God.
38:51 Conversations on a street couch.
41:38 Philosophy of Humor.
45:08 Colloquia inception.
45:50 Are ideas dangerous?
48:10 Power dynamics in conversation.
58:26 Plato's theory of play.
59:29 Red/Blue Team
1:03:45 Playing with ideas.
1:07:48 Favorite Stoas.
1:12:30 Professor Abe Haak Event
1:16:37 Jonathan's Hot Seat
1:20:55 Steel Man: Hiroshima bombing. Topic in a Hat.
1:23:23 Stoa: Colloquia Critique
1:27:19 Stoa: Monitoring Chinese Students
1:34:43 Hopes for the future.
1:37:51 Humility and Death.
1:42:55 The utility of Philosophy.
1:46:37 The University as a bubble.
1:56:43 What Colloquia did for Prakhar.
2:02:48 The Stoa as an experiment.
2:03:44 End