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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
CMV: Knowledge is valuable in so far as it is useful. The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake is pointless.
gpt
It's difficult, if not impossible, to say what knowledge will or won't be useful before it's acquired. Einstein's theory of general relativity seems, at its surface, like a curious explanation of how the universe works that operates at such a massive scale that it's irrelevant to day-to-day life.

But modern GPS systems need to compensate for the behavior predicted by general relativity, and in fact, doing that compensation is one of the main things that causes GPS to function the way it does.

The end point of knowledge may be its practical application to the benefit of mankind. But it's impossible to predict what route to take to reach that endpoint. The accumulation of knowledge is like filling out the areas of a map—you might even discover new destinations in the process, or shortcuts to get from one point to another, relationships you never realized existed.