system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Red Dwarf] How does the luck virus work?

I've heard word from traders visiting my station about rare positive diseases having been isolated by researchers; a sexual magnetism virus and a so-called luck virus. 

I can imagine the sexual magnetism virus invoking some kind of pheromone production to cause its effects, but how in the name of smeg can a luck virus be possible? It can apparently make you correctly guess combinations and even find things lying around that just shouldn't be there... how can this be? What is the viruses mechanism?
gpt
Quite possibly the virus allows your body to act on the vast vast amount of data that exists that we simply allow to wash over us. 

For example if faced with a locked door that has a keypad; the virus would intercept the visual information that shows which keys are ever more slightly clean from the repeated input of the code, it would then inform our subconscious of the likely combination. We call it luck, but its actually the virus interpreting the world around us on a far more detailed level than we ever could, and informing the subconscious of the best course of action at all times.