The Open-Strategy Dictator Game: Cooperation Under Mutual Transparency
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arXiv:2608.14913v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce the Open-Strategy Dictator Game (OSDG), a variant of the classic dictator game in which each player's strategy is a natural-language document visible to all participants. The dictator's decision, to SHARE or TAKE an endowment, may depend on the text of the recipient's strategy. A large language model adjudicates each interaction by interpreting the dictator's strategy in the context of the recipient's. We run round-robin tournaments among diverse strategies and analyze the resulting payoff matrix using softmax equilibrium frequenci
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.14913v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce the Open-Strategy Dictator Game (OSDG), a variant of the classic dictator game in which each player's strategy is a natural-language document visible to all participants.
- The dictator's decision, to SHARE or TAKE an endowment, may depend on the text of the recipient's strategy.
- A large language model adjudicates each interaction by interpreting the dictator's strategy in the context of the recipient's.
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