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I sent a kid off to college and a some sort of crazy adult came back šŸ«£šŸ˜‚ WARNING: contains spiritual ego collateral damage and one ANGRY cat named The Mitch!ā 

Timecodes and topics:

0:00 Nina is back from Vassar
2:08 Violin, double majoring, and choosing Vassar over NYU
4:49 Watching her concert and friends at college
7:01 Poughkeepsie, New York City, and violin duets
9:00 Dining halls, the bagel place, and the campus petting zoo
12:55 The Mitch the cat 1
4:50 Professorsā€™ fits and the jean jacket comeback
17:34 Cocteau Twins and whether the Mitch is fat
19:23 What Nina misses from home, and San Francisco tech bros
21:37 Dining hall food and the freshman 15
24:03 Drop-off night and Professor Navega
25:55 Affluent classmates, parties, and Halloween weekend
28:41 What Nina thinks of the awakening stuff
30:45 Crying at drop-off and Halloween costumes
33:17 Is college worth it in the age of AI
34:47 Side hustles, Donald Hoffman, and the homunculus
37:00 Did the kids wake up too
40:30 Watching Nina grow up on the channel
41:48 The stumbling block of teaching what you just learned
42:35 The Gita, Zoroastrian prayers, and Zubinā€™s childhood religion
46:12 Spirituality as ā€œjust thisā€
47:24 Claude in the car, Chat with Pat, and AI flattery
50:03 Is Claude conscious, and who is having the experience
51:32 Saying thank you to AI, Waymo, and who is liable
54:43 Dallas hospitality and Uber drivers
57:38 Is Dallas the South
58:15 Wrap-up and sending Nina back to school
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