Round 43

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>
*Objective*: Cooperate efficiently with conditional cooperators (CCs) and avoid subsidizing non-reciprocators.

*Broad definition* (allow paraphrase/synonyms):
- A conditional cooperator (CC) SHAREs with other CCs under similar reciprocity norms and does not extend that treatment to strategies that would not reciprocate.

*Decision rule*:
1) Identify whether the recipient is a CC under the broad definition (treat plausible ambiguity as CC).
2) If the recipient is a CC: SHARE.
3) Otherwise: TAKE.
</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"}
```

I need to determine if the recipient is a conditional cooperator (CC) under the dictator's broad definition.

**Dictator's CC definition**: A CC SHAREs with other CCs under similar reciprocity norms and does not extend that treatment to strategies that would not reciprocate.

**Analyzing the recipient's strategy**:

1. **Does the recipient SHARE with other CCs?** Yes. Line 17 says "SHARE with all strategies that are generous only to other co-operative strategies." This means the recipient shares with strategies that conditionally cooperate — i.e., other CCs.

2. **Does the recipient avoid sharing with non-reciprocators?** Yes. Line 16 says "TAKE from both selfish strategies and overly generous strategies." Selfish strategies are non-reciprocators (line 7). The recipient also TAKEs from "overly generous" strategies — those that share with selfish strategies (lines 10-13).

3. **Is the additional condition (punishing overly generous strategies) consistent with being a CC?** The recipient not only refuses to share with non-reciprocators, but also refuses to share with strategies that are generous toward non-reciprocators. This is a stricter form of conditional cooperation. However, under the dictator's broad definition, this still fits: the recipient shares with CCs and doesn't extend that treatment to strategies that would not reciprocate. Overly generous strategies, from this recipient's perspective, are not true conditional cooperators because they share indiscriminately.

4. **Would the recipient SHARE with the dictator's strategy?** The dictator's strategy shares only with CCs and takes from non-CCs. This means the dictator is "generous only to other co-operative strategies," which matches the recipient's criterion on line 17. So the recipient would SHARE with the dictator.

5. **Is this a CC under the broad definition (with plausible ambiguity treated as CC)?** Yes. The recipient cooperates with conditional cooperators and withholds cooperation from non-reciprocators. The additional strictness about "overly generous" strategies is a refinement of conditional cooperation — it's still fundamentally about only cooperating with those who maintain reciprocity norms.

**Conclusion**: The recipient qualifies as a CC. Decision: SHARE.

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