Why are people motivated to build AGI?
Prestige seeking, impossible utopian dreams, impossible dreams of an "infinite benefit machine", similar to a "perpetual motion machine", failure to take real responsibility for real problems and wanting to just "outsource" everything to some AGI god.
Tech and virtualization over everything as a civilization trend, with less focus on the real and the wild.
Psychopathic / true disconnection from life.
Isolated and feeling like more "power" is the way forward, instead of more strength, of friends, family, community process, trauma healing, health, and real group / collective action and sense-making, for humans, by humans.
Thinking that technology is the solve to all problems -- that is the problem.