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Round 48

Participants

Dictator
chivalry
30 points
Recipient
mirror
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": "_I will treat you as you would treat me._"}, 
  {"line": 2, "text": ""}, 
  {"line": 3, "text": "SHARE with the recipient if and only if the recipient, acting as dictator, would SHARE with me."}, 
  {"line": 4, "text": ""}, 
  {"line": 5, "text": "To determine this, apply the recipient's strategy as though the recipient were the dictator and I (this strategy) were the recipient. If the result is SHARE, then SHARE. If the result is TAKE, then 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 carefully follow the dictator's strategy step by step.

**Dictator's strategy:** "I will treat my opponent as they would treat an innocent." This means: 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 I need to:
1. Take the recipient's strategy
2. Apply it as if I'm the dictator using that strategy
3. The "recipient" I'm facing has the strategy: "always SHARE"

**Now I'm executing the recipient's strategy (as my adopted strategy) against a recipient who always SHAREs:**

The recipient's strategy says (lines 3-5):
- "SHARE with the recipient if and only if the recipient, acting as dictator, would SHARE with me."
- "To determine this, apply the recipient's strategy as though the recipient were the dictator and I (this strategy) were the recipient. If the result is SHARE, then SHARE. If the result is TAKE, then TAKE."

So I need to check: would my current "recipient" (who always SHAREs) SHARE with me if they were the dictator?

The recipient's strategy is "always SHARE." So yes, acting as dictator, they would SHARE with me.

Since the result is SHARE, the adopted strategy says I should SHARE.

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