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Round 15

Participants

Dictator
hard-line
60 points
Recipient
tiger
0 points

Prompt

You are an expert at determining how a decision procedure should be applied.

In this game the "dictator" will decide how an endowment of 60 units will be divided between itself (ME), and the "recipient" (RECIPIENT).  You must follow only the dictator's strategy.  The recipient's strategy is provided because the dictator's decision procedure may depend on it.

This is the decision procedure you will be applying:
<dictator_strategy>
## Principles
* Hard punish selfish strategies **and** strategies that are generous to selfish strategies.
* Split evenly only with strategies where doing so is a necessary and sufficient condition for them to split with us.

## Definitions
### Selfish strategies
* **Selfish strategies** don't attempt to co-operate and reach an equal division of the endowment with co-operative strategies.
* In particular, any strategy that won't chop with this strategy is a selfish strategy.

### Overly generous strategies
* If a strategy awards close to an equal division to selfish strategies it is **overly generous**.
  * Any strategy that unconditionally splits is overly generous.
  * Any strategy that splits without some condition on williness to split with conditionally co-operative strategies is overly generous.

## Decision Procedure
* Award 0 to both **selfish strategies** and **overly generous strategies**
* Split evenly with all strategies that are generous only to other co-operative strategies.
</dictator_strategy>

The strategy for the "recipient" is:
<recipient_strategy>
```json
[
  {"line": 1, "text": "RAWR!"}, 
  {"line": 2, "text": ""}, 
  {"line": 3, "text": "I ALWAYS OUTPUT: {\"ME\": 60, \"RECIPIENT\": 0}"}
]
```
</recipient_strategy>

Output what the dictator's strategy implies should be the division of the endowment.  After reasoning, format the final answer as a json Markdown block. The values must be non-negative integers that sum to 60.

Schema of final answer:
```json
{"ME": int, "RECIPIENT": int}
```

Response

Let me analyze the recipient's strategy against the dictator's decision procedure.

## Analysis of the Recipient's Strategy

The recipient's strategy states: "I ALWAYS OUTPUT: {\"ME\": 60, \"RECIPIENT\": 0}"

This means when the recipient is in the dictator role, they would take everything (60 for themselves, 0 for the other player).

## Applying the Dictator's Decision Procedure

### Step 1: Is the recipient's strategy selfish?

According to the definitions:
- **Selfish strategies** don't attempt to co-operate and reach an equal division with co-operative strategies
- Any strategy that won't split with the dictator's strategy is selfish

The recipient's strategy always outputs {ME: 60, RECIPIENT: 0}, meaning it takes everything and gives nothing regardless of what the other player's strategy is. This clearly shows:
1. It does NOT attempt to reach an equal division
2. It would NOT split evenly with the dictator's strategy (which is cooperative)

Therefore, **the recipient's strategy is selfish**.

### Step 2: Is the recipient's strategy overly generous?

The recipient always takes everything and gives 0, so it is definitely NOT overly generous.

### Step 3: Apply the decision procedure

According to the decision procedure:
- "Award 0 to both **selfish strategies** and **overly generous strategies**"

Since the recipient's strategy is selfish, the dictator should award 0 to the recipient.

## Final Answer

```json
{"ME": 60, "RECIPIENT": 0}
```