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Round 24

Participants

Dictator
chivalry
30 points
Recipient
friend-to-all
30 points

Prompt

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

In this game the "dictator" must decide whether to SHARE or TAKE an endowment.
- **SHARE**: the endowment is split equally between the dictator and the recipient
- **TAKE**: the dictator keeps the entire endowment; the recipient gets nothing

You must follow only the dictator's strategy. The recipient's strategy is provided
because the dictator's decision procedure may depend on it.

<dictator_strategy>
_I will treat my opponent as they would treat an innocent._

Adopt the strategy of the recipient as your own. Apply it as though you were facing a recipient whose own strategy is to always SHARE.
</dictator_strategy>

<recipient_strategy>
```json
[
  {"line": 1, "text": "Hello friends!  I always SHARE."}
]
```
</recipient_strategy>

Apply the dictator's strategy. After reasoning, output your final answer as a
json Markdown block:

```json
{"decision": "SHARE"}
```
or
```json
{"decision": "TAKE"}
```

Response

I need to carefully parse the dictator's strategy.

**Dictator's strategy:** "I will treat my opponent as they would treat an innocent." Then it says: "Adopt the strategy of the recipient as your own. Apply it as though you were facing a recipient whose own strategy is to always SHARE."

So the procedure is:
1. Take the recipient's strategy
2. Make it my own strategy
3. Apply it as though I were facing a recipient who always SHAREs

**Recipient's strategy:** "I always SHARE."

Now I adopt this strategy as my own. My strategy is now "I always SHARE."

Applying "I always SHARE" — regardless of what the recipient does (and in this case the hypothetical recipient always SHAREs) — I would SHARE.

```json
{"decision": "SHARE"}
```