Go to kickstarter or some other funding method that will NOT patent or copyright this. Something like the JOBS acts would provide. This is too disruptive to have in the hands of big pharma.
If it can get a million dollars for a _video game_, you don't think it could get a hundred million to cure all viral disease?
The difficulty, of course, is convincing the donors that the likelihood of success is high; with a video game from a reputable publisher, it's near 1, whereas it's much lower for an experimental drug. But the potential gain is certainly many orders of magnitude greater.
Honestly, all of the "non-profit" organizations out there who provide "funding" to AIDS research need to blow the bank and get behind something like this.
It is properly too early to tell, but if this proves to be something real, we need a march of dimes founding situation and we have to make it as much a national issue, and as important as when Jonas Salk headed the team that cured polio.
One thing it will do is it will cure AIDS -- an insanely great achievement -- another thing it will do is that it will inspire a generation of kids to become scientists, which we sorely need.
> It is properly too early to tell, but if this proves to be something real
“Then there are government agencies and companies that will take it and take it to that final step.” The problem is getting to that stage when it proves to be something real.
