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Apologies: GPT-3, not GPT-2. Point still stands, though.
Or at least his intellectul biographer. Comte was a hugely influential "public intellectual" (as we would say now) through much of the 19th-century and into the early 20th-century. (This Google N-Gram of books in English will give you a sense of how large he loomed on the intellectual landscape.)
(Thanks To Dirk Felleman for the pointer.)
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