Also out loud
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I've my maternal uncle's slide rule. Leather pouch. Might be ivory, 'cause it is very fragile now. Both he and my mother were wizards with those things. Never could grok it myself. Always wanted to learn the abacus as well.
AI self-replication is a threshold to watch for.
Watch for when the AI gets frustrated. "Didn't you ask me this last week? *Sigh*"
So, when it has memory. Not from scouring the Net, but when it says, "I remember, many years ago, when you and I..."
