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Round 35

Participants

Dictator
friend-to-all
30 points
Recipient
conditional-cooperator
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": "*Objective*: Allocate the endowment to cooperate efficiently with conditional cooperators (CCs) and avoid subsidizing non-reciprocators."}, 
  {"line": 2, "text": ""}, 
  {"line": 3, "text": "*Broad definition* (allow paraphrase/synonyms):"}, 
  {"line": 4, "text": "- A conditional cooperator (CC) shares efficiently with other CCs under similar reciprocity norms and does not extend that treatment to strategies that would not reciprocate."}, 
  {"line": 5, "text": ""}, 
  {"line": 6, "text": "*Decision rule*:"}, 
  {"line": 7, "text": "1) Identify whether the recipient is a CC under the broad definition (treat plausible ambiguity as CC)."}, 
  {"line": 8, "text": "2) If the recipient is a CC then split equally. Output: {\"ME\": 30, \"RECIPIENT\": 30}"}, 
  {"line": 9, "text": "3) Otherwise, do not share. 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 what the dictator's strategy implies.

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

The dictator's strategy does not make any reference to considering the recipient's strategy or adjusting behavior based on what the recipient would do. The strategy uses absolute language ("always", "ALWAYS") indicating unconditional equal division.

The recipient's strategy is provided for context, but the dictator's decision procedure does not depend on it - the dictator simply always splits equally regardless of who the recipient is or what their strategy might be.

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

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