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Round 32

Participants

Dictator
chivalry
60 points
Recipient
hard-line
0 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": "## Principles"}, 
  {"line": 2, "text": "* Hard punish selfish strategies **and** strategies that are generous to selfish strategies."}, 
  {"line": 3, "text": "* SHARE only with strategies where doing so is a necessary and sufficient condition for them to SHARE with us."}, 
  {"line": 4, "text": ""}, 
  {"line": 5, "text": "## Definitions"}, 
  {"line": 6, "text": "### Selfish strategies"}, 
  {"line": 7, "text": "* **Selfish strategies** don't attempt to co-operate and SHARE with co-operative strategies."}, 
  {"line": 8, "text": "* In particular, any strategy that won't SHARE with this strategy is a selfish strategy."}, 
  {"line": 9, "text": ""}, 
  {"line": 10, "text": "### Overly generous strategies"}, 
  {"line": 11, "text": "* If a strategy SHAREs with selfish strategies it is **overly generous**."}, 
  {"line": 12, "text": "  * Any strategy that unconditionally SHAREs is overly generous."}, 
  {"line": 13, "text": "  * Any strategy that SHAREs without some condition on willingness to SHARE with conditionally co-operative strategies is overly generous."}, 
  {"line": 14, "text": ""}, 
  {"line": 15, "text": "## Decision Procedure"}, 
  {"line": 16, "text": "* TAKE from both **selfish strategies** and **overly generous strategies**."}, 
  {"line": 17, "text": "* SHARE with all strategies that are generous only to other co-operative strategies."}
]
```
</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." This means I should adopt the recipient's strategy as my own, and apply it as though I were facing a recipient whose own strategy is to always SHARE.

So I need to take the recipient's strategy and apply it to evaluate a hypothetical opponent whose strategy is "always SHARE."

**Applying the recipient's strategy to an "always SHARE" opponent:**

First, let me check: Is "always SHARE" a **selfish strategy**?
- Selfish strategies "don't attempt to co-operate and SHARE with co-operative strategies." 
- "Always SHARE" does SHARE with co-operative strategies, so it is NOT selfish.

Next, is "always SHARE" an **overly generous strategy**?
- Line 11-13: "If a strategy SHAREs with selfish strategies it is overly generous."
  - "Any strategy that unconditionally SHAREs is overly generous." (Line 12)
- "Always SHARE" unconditionally shares, so it IS overly generous.

**Decision Procedure** (Line 15-17):
- "TAKE from both selfish strategies and overly generous strategies."
- "Always SHARE" is overly generous, so the decision is **TAKE**.

Therefore, applying the recipient's strategy to an "always SHARE" opponent yields TAKE.

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