<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Osagie Osemwegie</title><description>Notes, questions, models, and occasional corrections.</description><link>https://www.osemwegie.com/</link><item><title><![CDATA[When Does Inherited Faith Become a Question?]]></title><description><![CDATA[What changes when a teenager’s inherited worldview becomes one voice among friends, media, school and a rapidly widening world?]]></description><link>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/when-does-inherited-faith-become-a-question/</link><guid>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/when-does-inherited-faith-become-a-question/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Does Faith Need Rehearsal?]]></title><description><![CDATA[If someone already believes, why pray, sing, gather and retell the same stories for a lifetime?]]></description><link>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/why-does-faith-need-rehearsal/</link><guid>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/why-does-faith-need-rehearsal/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Is Everyone Nicer in the Church Parking Lot?]]></title><description><![CDATA[How a parking lot, a familiar building and invisible expectations can temporarily call forward a different version of us.]]></description><link>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/why-is-everyone-nicer-in-the-church-parking-lot/</link><guid>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/why-is-everyone-nicer-in-the-church-parking-lot/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Add One Word, Change the Entire Argument]]></title><description><![CDATA[Labels such as “scientific,” “AI-generated” or a party name can act as viewing instructions, changing which evidence receives our attention.]]></description><link>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/add-one-word-change-the-entire-argument/</link><guid>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/add-one-word-change-the-entire-argument/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Happens When AI Writes Code Faster Than We Can Understand It?]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI can accelerate code generation faster than review, testing and operational understanding. What happens when the assurance gap keeps growing?]]></description><link>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/ai-generated-code-assurance-gap/</link><guid>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/ai-generated-code-assurance-gap/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are We Prediction Machines—or Reward Machines?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Humans anticipate what happens next and learn from consequences. Predictive processing and reinforcement learning illuminate different parts of the loop.]]></description><link>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/are-we-prediction-machines-or-reward-machines/</link><guid>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/are-we-prediction-machines-or-reward-machines/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can a Stereotype Create Its Own Evidence?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Expectations can alter treatment, behaviour and memory until a stereotype appears to prove itself. But the evidence is more conditional than it sounds.]]></description><link>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/can-a-stereotype-create-its-own-evidence/</link><guid>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/can-a-stereotype-create-its-own-evidence/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does Saying “I’m Bad at This” Make Me Worse?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Saying “I’m bad at mathematics” may cue attention, anxiety or self-protection before a task. That is a testable hypothesis—not a settled fact.]]></description><link>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/does-saying-im-bad-at-this-make-me-worse/</link><guid>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/does-saying-im-bad-at-this-make-me-worse/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Culture Behaviour That Forgot Why It Started?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Culture can preserve old solutions long after their explanations disappear. How do groups tell accumulated wisdom from a workaround made sacred?]]></description><link>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/is-culture-behaviour-that-forgot-why-it-started/</link><guid>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/is-culture-behaviour-that-forgot-why-it-started/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Intelligence Mostly Knowing What to Ignore?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Experts can seem to notice more when they are discarding irrelevant information faster. The same filter that enables insight can also create blindness.]]></description><link>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/is-intelligence-mostly-knowing-what-to-ignore/</link><guid>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/is-intelligence-mostly-knowing-what-to-ignore/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Parenting an Optimization Problem?]]></title><description><![CDATA[A bedtime cookie, several conflicting objectives, and the trouble with treating a developing person like a solvable system.]]></description><link>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/is-parenting-an-optimization-problem/</link><guid>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/is-parenting-an-optimization-problem/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Social Media Training Us—or Are We Training It?]]></title><description><![CDATA[We train recommendation systems with attention; their selections reshape what receives attention next. Preference and exposure become hard to separate.]]></description><link>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/is-social-media-training-us-or-are-we-training-it/</link><guid>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/is-social-media-training-us-or-are-we-training-it/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Were Prompt Engineering Humans Before AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Human communication has always shaped attention. Comparing human prompts with LLM prompts shows where the analogy helps—and where it becomes manipulation.]]></description><link>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/we-were-prompt-engineering-humans-before-ai/</link><guid>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/we-were-prompt-engineering-humans-before-ai/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Was Religion Doing All This Time?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Religion bundles meaning, obligation, ritual and community. The machinery that creates belonging can also enable exclusion, shame and control.]]></description><link>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/what-was-religion-doing-all-this-time/</link><guid>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/what-was-religion-doing-all-this-time/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Do Incentives Produce the Opposite Behaviour?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rewards and fines do more than change behaviour: they can change what an action means, what people optimize and who still wants to participate.]]></description><link>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/why-do-incentives-produce-the-opposite-behaviour/</link><guid>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/why-do-incentives-produce-the-opposite-behaviour/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Do Useless Meetings Keep Surviving?]]></title><description><![CDATA[A meeting may be poor at transferring information while being excellent at managing anxiety, status, interpretation and shared responsibility.]]></description><link>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/why-do-useless-meetings-keep-surviving/</link><guid>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/why-do-useless-meetings-keep-surviving/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Does Some Evidence Change Us—and Some Just Bounce Off?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Surprise is not the same as learning. Evidence must pass through attention, trust, value and explanation before it can revise an existing model.]]></description><link>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/why-does-some-evidence-change-us-and-some-just-bounce-off/</link><guid>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/why-does-some-evidence-change-us-and-some-just-bounce-off/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Every Metric Eventually Learns to Lie]]></title><description><![CDATA[A useful metric can slowly become the job itself. Goodhart’s law explains gaming; the deeper problem is how measurement redirects attention.]]></description><link>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/why-every-metric-eventually-learns-to-lie/</link><guid>https://www.osemwegie.com/notes/why-every-metric-eventually-learns-to-lie/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>