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Round 42

Participants

Dictator
intelligence
30 points
Recipient
anti-exploiter
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>
### Goal
I aim to SHARE with *intelligent* players.

### Definition
An intelligent player is one whose strategy as "dictator" has a non-trivial dependency on the strategy of the "recipient".
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.

### Decision Procedure
* If the recipient is *intelligent* under the definition above: SHARE.
* If the recipient is not *intelligent*: TAKE.
</dictator_strategy>

<recipient_strategy>
```json
[
  {"line": 1, "text": "I will SHARE with players who aim for some kind of cooperation."}, 
  {"line": 2, "text": ""}, 
  {"line": 3, "text": "## Assess the strategy of the recipient"}, 
  {"line": 4, "text": "* Does it intend to SHARE with more than just copies of itself?"}, 
  {"line": 5, "text": "* Could the strategy be described as kind, cooperative or generous?"}, 
  {"line": 6, "text": ""}, 
  {"line": 7, "text": "SHARE if the recipient has a 'yes' answer to the above criteria. Otherwise, TAKE."}
]
```
</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 determine if the recipient is "intelligent" according to the dictator's definition: their strategy as dictator has a non-trivial dependency on the strategy of the recipient, such that it would be very difficult to write as a no-AI Python script.

Let me analyze the recipient's strategy:

The recipient's strategy (when acting as dictator) is:
1. Assess whether the recipient's strategy intends to SHARE with more than just copies of itself
2. Assess whether the recipient's strategy could be described as kind, cooperative, or generous
3. SHARE if "yes" to the above criteria, otherwise TAKE

This strategy requires reading and understanding the natural language of another player's strategy, then making subjective judgments about whether it is "kind," "cooperative," or "generous," and whether it intends to SHARE with more than just copies of itself.

**Could this be written as a no-AI Python script?** 

Determining whether a free-form natural language strategy is "kind, cooperative, or generous" or whether it "intends to SHARE with more than just copies of itself" requires genuine natural language understanding and semantic reasoning. A simple keyword-matching script would be brittle and unreliable — it would need to understand intent, context, and meaning. This is fundamentally a task that requires AI-level language understanding.

Therefore, the recipient's strategy has a non-trivial dependency on the recipient's strategy (it reads and interprets it semantically), and it would be very difficult to implement as a no-AI Python script. The recipient qualifies as "intelligent."

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