-Cancer-
I'll combine the patent plan with the mass publication plan. First, learn enough about the cure that I can basically explain how it works, and use this knowledge to clandestinely persuade the parents of local child cancer patients that I'm for real. Use my patent ownership to terrorize outlets and force them to provide at a reasonable price, ala Ben Franklin. I will also publish my identity with the cure and immediately afterward head down to the children's hospital and distribute the originals to terminal cases on camera. Do as many interviews as possible to avoid getting blackbagged, claim I invented it in my house on accident (not
untrue, in a Jedi sense).
Get rich off of publicity and go to a famous medical school. Also get a publicist, that's probably important. Later, launch a political campaign in which I ominously refer to myself as "The Cure" and
exterminate humanity in a nuclear holocaust support the space program. Yes. That's what I meant.
Oh yeah, and empirically prove the existence of the supernatural at some point since what the fuck where did this box come from.
The machine will permanently remove major obstacles to human civilization, but for a price.
The options are
1. - permanently remove the ability for diseases to develop antibiotic resistances (and remove all current medical resistances)
2. - humanity is provided with an infrastructure system and detailed schematics for the building and operation of fusion power generation plants.
3. - Remove all national distinctions and cultural tensions (unite the world)
Each option you choose will result in the spontaneous death of 1/3 of the world's population. (you are excluded)
You may substitute your life in payment for one of the options.
This is
clearly a malicious genie scenario. The first option will create biological symmetry and cause the extinction of all life, the second option will make us blow ourselves up and destroy civilization, and the third option will suck up everybody's souls into a giant red sphere in orbit and destroy individuality. Any of the options will assist these forms of destruction by the chaos of causing mass death, and me dying instead is to prevent me from telling anybody about the danger if there isn't mass death.
Do nothing and shout racist obscenities against aliens at the sky.