The One-Person Mini-Cult

A few days ago a friend contacted me with the classic "I have to tell you something important." He had been talking to ChatGPT and had arrived at a conclusion that, according to him, changed everything. What he had glimpsed was, in his words, a discovery at the level of a PhD in philosophy. The problem was that a simple internet search revealed Saussure had written that same idea in 1916. The…