"First Kill!" - Palantir, Nuclear War, Bio-Hybrids & AC-130 Bombing

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(***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ Jesse Hamel is a former Air Force Lt. Colonel & AC-130 Gunship Combat Aviator. He is now CEO of Victus Technologies, a drone warfare company he founded while studying at MIT.

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 – Intro
01:22 – Jesse’s Air Force Background, 9/11, AC-130 Gunship, Combat Years
12:35 – Warfighters & Technology, Drones vs Human Trust, The Agentic Age
23:56 – West Coast Tech Power, CCP Exploiting Open Systems, Planning for 6G
34:31 – 6G, Humans & Machines, AI, Bio-Hybrid Hellscape
48:33 – AI Arms Race: U.S. vs China, Nuclear War
59:25 – Zooming Out on Power, Governance Problems, 1984, Corruption, Term Limits
01:12:20 – Palantir, War Has Changed, Bringing Our Team Home
01:22:00 – Snowden, Moral Tradeoffs, Combat, Mission Planning, Risk of Inaction
01:31:41 – Founders & Stress, Military, Resilience, Suffering, Slaying the Daily Dragon
01:41:45 – Turning Suffering Into Growth, Anxiety, CNS Limits, Breaking Bad Habits
01:57:03 – Mortality, Meaning, Being vs Doing, The Arc of Change
02:06:38 – AC-130 Squadrons, Dawn of Drone Warfare, Afghanistan, MQ-9 Integration
02:16:54 – Predators & Reapers, Psychological Cost of Killing, First Kill
02:27:21 – Moral Injury, The Charring of the Conscience, Faith, Kierkegaard, Purity of Heart
02:37:08 – Never Arriving at the Truth, Lifelong Learning
02:40:18 – Next Ep

OTHER JDP EPISODES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Episode 370 - Daniel DiMartino: https://youtu.be/2n9Y_AJlzmA
• Episode 363 - Tyler Oliveira: https://youtu.be/stFmTWhm-X4
• Episode 292 - Ed Calderon: https://youtu.be/0FYmNDhhszs
• Episode 293 - Ed Calderon: https://youtu.be/0FYmNDhhszs
• Episode 265 - Kat Szulc: https://youtu.be/I6JUJCxKnDU
• Episode 313 - Kat Szulc: https://youtu.be/WvX9-G5IYh0
• Episode 336 - Kat Szulc: https://youtu.be/E54bS9kFczQ

CREDITS:

• Host, Editor & Producer: Julian Dorey
• COO, Producer & Editor: Alessi Allaman - https://www.youtube.com/@UCyLKzv5fKxGmVQg3cMJJzyQ
• In-Studio Producer: Joey Deef - https://www.instagram.com/joeydeef/

Julian Dorey Podcast Episode 377 - Jesse Hamel
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