Pareto frontier the Pareto frontier and then with a little Pareto frontier you might get to the Pareto frontier

P^2

Its just an insufferable AI way to say best set of options given

Waaay older than AI. Basic econ 101,it is.

Though it being used constantly in AI-related topics from ~2024 onwards is very much a function of LLM output, I would argue.

Oh for sure. As has em-dashes -- a glorious tidbit primarily used by writers in the past to circumvent parenthetical clauses. Also the incredibly abused "load-bearing."

Meanwhile, I just want people to think about the production possibilities frontier.

Not really. The Pareto frontier is itself a distribution over all optimisation paths and dominance is a real and useful property we test when researching evolutionary methods. It’s not chosen to be insufferable but to try to be precise.