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This would've made an awesome SciFi short story.

The twist at the end is that she's lying.



I can't imagine that a car dealership would even care, as long as they got to sell a car.

"Oh dang, you ticked the 'not a robot' box but you are actually a robot ... Ah, no worries, I'll put a call in to head office, get the paperwork changed. Well, enjoy your car! ... And don't forget to come back in six months for your free oil change! ... for the car, I mean."


Are there rules against selling to robots? I mean, a great portion of the stock exchange is just that, essentially, no?


Robots can't own property, as they are not recognized as a person.

You may sell to someone represented by a robot, but you're not selling to the robot.

When using a vending machine, your making a trade with the vending machine company, not the machine itself.


Hm, so selling to a robot without someone behind to represent would be extralegal I guess, and if any problems occur during the trade you'd be on your own?

The closest thing would probably trades with wild animals. Are there any laws on that? (Probably not, but the situation is not unthinkable.)


Can a robot be the sole asset, employee, and officer of a corporation?


A robot cannot be an employee or officer of a corporation, you need to be a person for that.


http://www.elib.pl/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Lem.pdf

Definitely one of my favorite reads from my youth days...


Isn't that basically 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep'?


I really liked the added wrinkle in Blade Runner 2049 where replicants have to periodically prove that they're sufficiently robotic.


Also, "Impostor", still by P.K.Dick

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_(short_story)


More like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_(short_story)


More like Second Variety

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Variety


The salesman is a robot as well.


And the car


The car is buying itself with the money it earned as a cab.


... but still not the paper form.


I wonder if in the far future we'll have two androids pretending to be human and trying to fool each other at the same time, only for them to realize that they are both, in fact, robots


Which is a proper strategy to train robots to be human.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_network




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