The question of why there is a pandemic must have many different answers. You seem to be asking what are the reasons for people getting sick with diseases, but it's not that simple. I think we can break down this broad category into 2 distinct questions:
The first question is 'what causes people to get sick'. This leads us down a long path of discussion that I think you are more familiar with than me. The person who introduced this topic asked what caused the pandemic, which someone else answered by saying it was some sort of virus or something. There has been much research into viruses and their effects on humans, so I don't need to go into detail there.
The second question is 'why do people get sick'. This is a question that I think many people don't have the answer to, and it's not for lack of asking. It seems to me that most humans are unaware at even the simplest level as to why they themselves are susceptible to illness. Maybe this isn't true for you, but if we were talking in person then I would be able to tell by your expression or body language what your opinion on this subject was.
I think we can summarize this question by asking 'what makes people sick?'. And to that we can respond with another question: 'What causes sickness?' This may seem like a meaningless statement, but I believe it is not. Medicine has long struggled with defining what it is they are actually trying to cure in patients.
I believe the answer to that question is this: 'Sickness does not exist. Sickness is a phenomenon, and we are searching for what causes it.' There's no distinct thing called sickness, just as there's no distinct thing called health.
I don't know if you agree with me, but I think this is a fundamental problem that medicine has been struggling with for years. Let's say we find the cure for a particular disease (a fairly arbitrary concept). Do you think that by curing one disease we will have cured all sickness? Of course not! There are infinite causes of people getting sick, and there's no telling what other diseases might arise in the future.
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You are getting an AI to generate text on different topics.
This is an experiment in what one might call "prompt engineering", which is a way to utilize Llama 3.1 405b, a neural network trained by Meta.
Llama is a language model. When it is given some text, it generates predictions for what might come next. It is remarkably good at adapting to different contexts, as defined by a prompt (in this case, hidden), which sets the scene for what type of text will be generated.
Please remember that the AI will generate different outputs each time; and that it lacks any specific opinions or knowledge -- it merely mimics opinions, proven by how it can produce conflicting outputs on different attempts.
Feel free to share interesting outputs to /r/philosopherAI on Reddit.
