I dislike NFTs as much as the next person but this is messed up. Even worse that it isn’t the first time. And how the heck did they get their hands on germicidal UV lamps without being aware of the difference, and the safety concerns?
Aren’t germicidal lamps specifically UV-C waves or something? How cheap do you have to be to buy these lamps instead of safer lights. Or even use the cheap lights but install the proper light filters on them, they’re just thin tinted plastic sheets.
How on earth do you accidentally buy medical grade lighting? Like it must have been really expensive and no one at any point that “why are these light bulbs so expensive”. Also, why didn’t the shipping company think it was weird that a hospitality venue they wanted hundreds and hundreds of medical decontamination lights?
And presumably electricians fitted them and their non-standard design didn’t raise any eyebrows?
Literally everyone involved in this story is a massive idiot.
UV-c lights are actually much cheaper than UV black lights as they don’t require the phosphor coating required to block the harmful frequencies. On top of that there was a flood of UV-c bulbs onto the market from the pandemic.
What really should have tipped them off that they are using bulbs is that UV-c bulbs emit a more blue color whereas black lights emit a purple color. Or the wierd smell emitting from the ozone coming off the bulbs.
Like it must have been really expensive and no one at any point that “why are these light bulbs so expensive”.
We’re talking about people who have absurd amounts of money. I know a rich guy and he doesn’t even blink at spending $10k+ on some things. It’s just inconsequential.
Presumably people who bought NFTs. If you’re going to trick yourself into thinking your dumb, AI-generated piece of shitty “art” was a worthwhile investment, you might as well enjoy the perks of being in such an exclusive, stupid club.
The enjoyment of going to parties typically relies on the attendees of the party and how much you like or dislike them. This specific party is full of people who bought monkey JPEGs and turned them into their entire personality. So, presumably, I would not like this party.
It’s not for anyone with a shred of sense. Lighting aside, anyone still being conned by the NFT image market is unfortunately probably willfully ignorant, impossibly stubborn, and unable to learn from their mistakes or the mistakes of others. There are plenty of working ways to tokenize images for an actual purpose, blockchain verification is worthless for individual images and literally always was.
maybe they’re just having fun. People purchase status items all the time and no one has a problem with it. There is nothing fundamentally different between showing off your 100k monkey picture with showing off your 100k watch.
Take less than five minutes out of your day to compare the impact of a rolex watch with the impact of a blockchain interaction. It sounds like you don’t understand how wildly different those two things are, either physically (one does not exist, the other does) or in an environmental context (one uses grid power with every verification, one is mechanical). “Buying status symbols for fun” would make a good album title for a boy band a decade ago.
Something physically existing or not is not what makes a status symbol. Are you implying something about energy consumption of blockchains? The network these are on (ethereum) no longer uses PoW mining, so the energy argument does not work here.
Yeah but you need an ape to get in. I don’t even know why you are arguing. There are non physical status symbols people use all the time. That’s literally what nft’s are, status symbols. Or at least were during their hayday.
You don’t need an ape to get in lmao, you just get free admission if you do have one. And we’re arguing because you’re trying to defend the nonsensical position that “status symbols don’t have to have physical worth/existence”, and then trying to back that position with bored ape NFTs, which are recognized as worthless outside of the crypto world, and even by some inside the crypto world.
I hate to say this but cricket is right. The item being physical or not do not matter for this kind of show off purshase. A Rolex or Birkin has pratically no construction cost, same as an nft (relative to their selling price).
And I don’t understand the point about the environnement, are you saying nft are negative because of their environnemental impact while a Rolex is positive ? If so you I’m sure you can find plenty of status symbol item that pollute more than nft…
Nft are still stupid and people at this party are probably insufferable tho.
Uninformed take. The lowball for construction cost on a 2,000 euro rolex is ~700 euro. You also don’t understand the power draw of blockchain verification. You are 100% talking out of your ass.
A supercar cost a lot to construct but I’m pretty sure it’s worse for the environnement than a single nft (and don’t tell me it’s useful, in most case it will stay rotting in a garage)…
A Birkin bag can cost 100.000+ which is league out of it’s construction cost… Heck, a signed baseball cost 5 bucks to make and can sell for 600.000.
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Not everything has more fake value and effect on the environnement, but you can find worse thing for each aspects. Not saying nft are good, nft are trash, but it’s not a special kind of trash.
You also don’t understand the power draw of blockchain verification
Sounds like you don’t understand. The blockchain that these monkey pictures are on do not use proof of work mining anymore, so there is no “wasting energy” anymore in the form of GPU/ASIC mining.
So their contract addresses are down and they don’t do the one thing that set them apart from a usual token? Crazy. Sounds like it’s STILL worthless lmfao
You are now also on the list of “people who replied to a post about basic NFT function but did not know a basic NFT function”. You are a grifter, a helpful idiot, or actively being scammed.
Err what are you talking about? I was just explaining about how the blockchain this is based on doesn’t consume copious amounts of energy any more. I think you might have me confused for someone else. I know perfectly well how nft’s work, I think they are mostly stupid.
They weren’t even AI generated. Is there a AI generated at least they’d be unique from each other, there were a series of randomly lead images. It wasn’t AI that made them, it was basically just a bunch of if statements.
AI generated NFTs would also be pointless because anyone could get them or something very similar by giving the same prompt to an AI but at least they’d have some merit, at least they would be interesting.
How are they not intelligent? You are able to put in arbitrary prompts and its able to return an image constructed to your specifications. Seems you are being pedantic
There’s a distinction between intelligence and sentience.
The stuff impressing people right now only has a tiny short term memory and no way of really transferring that short term memory to long term memory, so it’s definitely not something you can characterise as sentience.
It is definitely intelligence, though, since it can draw from a very large pretrained set of knowledge with deep relational connections.
There are plenty of humans who aren’t sentient yet we still consider them human, like those in vegetative states. Babies are physically human, through and through.
In my language the ability to abstract is part of the definition of intelligence and that’s something no current “AI” can do. To be considered intelligent the program would have to be able to derive solutions for previously unknown problems from it’s current knowledge only.
However you feel about NFTs… this is horrifying for the people who were there. They’ve been in some cases blinded by this absurd level of incompetence.
It’s OK, I initially read the headline as attendees got their faces burned by the event’s lightning. My remaining two brain cells massively overclocked themselves trying to sort that one out.
NFTs are like those late-night commercials for star naming “registries”. They have their own Access database of non-legally-binding names that people have given to stars. You can pay to be on the list and get a paper certificate that no one gives a shit about.
By the way there are (estimates vary) thousands of stars in the observable universe for every grain on earth, just as there are essentially infinite NFTs.
That’s not true. At least in the case of BAYC the terms of use even give you a commercial license: iii. Commercial Use. Subject to your continued compliance with these Terms, Yuga Labs LLC grants you an unlimited, worldwide license to use, copy, and display the purchased Art for the purpose of creating derivative works based upon the Art (“Commercial Use”).
So just to point this out again, we all know they’re terrible because they’re an incredibly racist troll too right? www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpH3O6mnZvw
The funniest thing is the embedded tweet in the article that still has a stupid boredape avatar, has the “I simp for elon” blue checkmark, and the classic “[username].eth” username so you know they are really fun at parties while they try to grift their friends and family
The damage is also there from sunburns. You can stop before it hurts, only to later find it reddenned the next day and such. Same thing with welding with insufficient protection - ie. no long sleeves. You can weld and find out a few hours later that you should’ve brought a long sleeve after all. Once it hurts when you are doing something, then it’s a really bad case.
But you feel the “reddening” as a heat on your body. Just put your hand on a sunburn, you’ll be able to tell you have burned long before you can even see it.
Even before it hurts, you can feel your skin getting itchy and dried out. But, if you’re indoors and not expecting to be burned, you might not notice, or might not realize what you’re feeling is from the disinfectant UV lights being misused as fun paint-glowy UV lights.
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