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So you think that ChatGPT is a substitute for primary source research?

• almosthere 1y ago
  no, but you have two avenues - you have a business purpose and for what you were building, a video game, could probably be best approximated through chatgpt. If you're a historian writing a non-fiction book, then visit the fucking archives. the point I'm making is that everyone is making this a thing, when it is not. This is classic TDS. Everyone is attributing everything wrong with anything to Trump, his administration. And it's just insane.
  • mandevil 1y ago
    The point of the video game was to have a better model for naval damage control than the classic, Star Trek-style "10% damage" that you normally see in naval games. To do that I wanted to model actual WW2 ships, room by room, with the free-surface effect, meta-centric height, etc. respected, and then put you into the role of a DC officer on a ship that was attacked in various scenarios. That level of detail is impossible to get without these primary sources- and the only people who would be interested in a game like this would be the ones for whom that accuracy is a selling point. This is just one of my side projects, but it is one that shows the wide variety of projects that NARA II supported, beyond just historians.