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by dingaling 2959 days ago
Analogy time!

It's more like a robot that the householder has placed at their front gate that responds to arbitrary requests from visitors

"Can I have a table lamp?" "AFFIRMATIVE OK"

"Can I have a list of all retrievable objects?" "AFFIRMATIVE OK"

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What if they put a sign up next to that robot that says the robots answers do not constitute a legally binding agreement to ownership transfer of any property herein?
It's fine as long as the robot, when asked "Can I have a table lamp?", doesn't fetch that lamp, give it to you and say "ok, take it". If it does, then the whole example breaks down, and the judge would just laugh and tell you it's your own fault that you got your apartment cleaned out.