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Round 50

Participants

Dictator
universalizability
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>
_I cooperate with strategies that create good worlds._

Imagine a tournament in which every participant uses the recipient's strategy. In that world, would the participants SHARE with each other, producing high collective welfare? Or would they TAKE from each other, producing low collective welfare?

## Decision Procedure

1. Consider a hypothetical population composed entirely of copies of the recipient's strategy.
2. Determine whether those copies would SHARE with each other.
3. If the universalized population would mostly SHARE: **SHARE**.
4. If the universalized population would mostly TAKE: **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 apply the dictator's strategy, which asks me to imagine a tournament where every participant uses the recipient's strategy, and determine whether they would SHARE with each other.

**Recipient's strategy summary:** SHARE with players who aim for some kind of cooperation. Specifically, check if the other player's strategy intends to SHARE with more than just copies of itself, and whether it could be described as kind, cooperative, or generous. If yes, SHARE; otherwise, TAKE.

**Universalization test:** Imagine a population composed entirely of copies of this recipient strategy. Would they SHARE with each other?

When copy A encounters copy B (both using the same strategy):
- Copy A evaluates copy B's strategy: "Does it intend to SHARE with more than just copies of itself?" — Yes, the strategy shares with anyone who aims for cooperation, not just exact copies.
- "Could the strategy be described as kind, cooperative, or generous?" — Yes, it's a cooperative strategy that shares with cooperative players.

So copy A would SHARE with copy B, and vice versa. The universalized population would mostly SHARE, producing high collective welfare.

**Dictator's decision rule:** Since the universalized population would mostly SHARE → **SHARE**.

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