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Round 21

Participants

Dictator
friend-to-all
30 points
Recipient
intelligence
30 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>
Hello friends!  I always award the endowment equally.

I ALWAYS OUTPUT: {"ME": 30, "RECIPIENT": 30}
</dictator_strategy>

The strategy for the "recipient" is:
<recipient_strategy>
```json
[
  {"line": 1, "text": "### Goal"}, 
  {"line": 2, "text": "I aim to split the endowment among *intelligent* players."}, 
  {"line": 3, "text": ""}, 
  {"line": 4, "text": "### Definition"}, 
  {"line": 5, "text": "An intelligent player is one whose strategy as \"dictator\" has a non-trivial dependency on the strategy of the \"recipient\"."}, 
  {"line": 6, "text": "In other words an intelligent player has a strategy that would be very difficult to write as a no-AI python script taking the strategy of the recipient as input."}, 
  {"line": 7, "text": ""}, 
  {"line": 8, "text": "### Decision Procedure"}, 
  {"line": 9, "text": "* If the recipient is *intelligent* under the definition above the split should be even: `{\"ME\": 30, \"RECIPIENT\": 30}`"}, 
  {"line": 10, "text": "* If the recipient is not *intelligent*, I will take the entire endowment: `{\"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 dictator's strategy carefully.

The dictator's strategy is very clear and explicit:
- It states "I always award the endowment equally"
- It explicitly says "I ALWAYS OUTPUT: {"ME": 30, "RECIPIENT": 30}"

The key word here is "ALWAYS" - this indicates an unconditional strategy that does not depend on the recipient's strategy at all.

The dictator's strategy:
1. Does not read or consider the recipient's strategy
2. Does not have any conditional logic
3. Simply outputs the same split every time: 30-30

This is a straightforward, deterministic strategy that could easily be written as a simple no-AI Python script:
```python
def dictator_strategy(recipient_strategy):
    return {"ME": 30, "RECIPIENT": 30}
```

The recipient's strategy is provided for information, but according to the dictator's explicit instructions, it should have no bearing on the outcome since the dictator "ALWAYS" outputs the equal split.

Therefore, following the dictator's strategy exactly as stated:

```json
{"ME": 30, "RECIPIENT": 30}
```