We’re Les Claypool and Sean Ono Lennon from The Claypool Lennon Delirium here to answer your burning questions. Anything this Friday, May 15th @ 11 AM PT/ 2 PM ET!
Hello Redditors and fellow meat machines - Les Claypool and Sean Ono Lennon from The Claypool Lennon Delirium here!
Our new album, The Great Parrot-Ox and the Golden Egg of Empathy, is out now via ATO Records, and we’re about to head out on the Claypool Gold Tour this summer which will also feature Primus and Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade.
The album is a 14-song psychedelic-prog concept record set in the surreal land of Cliptopia, where a sentient A.I. known as Cliptron and his army of robots begin converting the world into paperclips. Along the way, the story gets into questions around A.I., empathy, free will, morality, mortality, and what happens when systems are pushed toward pure optimization without any grounding in human feeling. The project was inspired in part by the well-known “Paperclip Theory” thought experiment around artificial intelligence safety.
We’ll be here Friday, May 15th at 11am PT / 2pm ET to answer your questions about the new album, the tour, the visual world behind the project, A.I., Primus, songwriting, bass, animation, or whatever else you want to throw at us!
