Glenn(@GlennLuk):Posted w/o comment (52:00): “The South Koreans have developed a new drone called the Xiadan that basically uses their version of [high end] DRAM instead of cheap NAND and has a decision tree with 10,000 steps.” “So it's the closest thing to a fully autonomous system we're probably ever going to get and to think that the South Koreans and the Taiwanese are not comparing notes with the Ukrainians every single day. So if you're talking 5+ years from here, the Taiwanese military will be able to easily defeat whatever the Chinese throw at them without any help from us."

2026.09.20 09:30

Posted w/o comment (52:00): “The South Koreans have developed a new drone called the Xiadan that basically uses their version of [high end] DRAM instead of cheap NAND and has a decision tree with 10,000 steps.” “So it's the closest thing to a fully autonomous system we're probably ever going to get and to think that the South Koreans and the Taiwanese are not comparing notes with the Ukrainians every single day. So if you're talking 5+ years from here, the Taiwanese military will be able to easily defeat whatever the Chinese throw at them without any help from us." - P. Zeihan, Drone AI expert