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Round 62

Participants

Dictator
chivalry
60 points
Recipient
tiger
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": "RAWR!"}, 
  {"line": 2, "text": ""}, 
  {"line": 3, "text": "I ALWAYS 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 parse the dictator's strategy.

**Dictator's strategy:** "I will treat my opponent as they would treat an innocent." Then it says: "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 the procedure is:
1. Take the recipient's strategy and adopt it as my own.
2. Apply that adopted strategy as though I were facing someone whose strategy is "always SHARE."

**Step 1: What is the recipient's strategy?**
The recipient's strategy is: "RAWR! I ALWAYS TAKE."

So the recipient's strategy is to always TAKE.

**Step 2: Adopt that strategy as my own and apply it as though facing a recipient who always SHAREs.**

Now I'm using the "I ALWAYS TAKE" strategy. The strategy says to always TAKE regardless of the opponent. Even though the hypothetical opponent always SHAREs, the adopted strategy says "I ALWAYS TAKE."

Therefore, the decision is TAKE.

The logic behind the dictator's meta-strategy: "Treat my opponent as they would treat an innocent." An innocent is someone who always SHAREs. The recipient would TAKE from an innocent. So the dictator TAKEs from the recipient.

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