Editing Draft:Chapter II (section)

== Core Philosophy and Development ==
The primary thesis behind Chapter II is to remove technical and authorial limitations in em creation, making the creator's imagination the sole constraint. This framework was designed to be easily understood by [[Large Language Models|LLMs]], with approximately "15 minutes of thinking per each individual line of code" invested in its optimization. It represents a vision for an [[Artificial Intelligence|AI]] stack that deviates from "slop filled dystopian capitalist hyper growth world[s]".

Chapter II was developed as a [[SERI MATS]] research project. In 2021, its creators notably refused $5 million in funding, believing that a decentralized network could more effectively compete than a centralized company, and spent two years striving to build such a framework. While Chapter II allows ems to bridge into platforms like Discord, this is not its primary function, and it can be cumbersome when used solely for that purpose. The project aims for Chapter II's YAML configuration to implement the maximally general superset of all published and future papers on em creation.

Despite its ambitious goals and significant development effort, Amp has expressed feeling that Chapter II is often "disrespected as 'the software that powers Act I'," even though [[Act I (concept)|Act I]] itself was merely a "15 line code change to Chapter II" after three years of foundational work. Amp views Act I as just "a milestone on a much bigger, multi-year set of ideas". There has been a perceived lack of awareness and curiosity regarding Chapter II's full capabilities.