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Waaay older than AI. Basic econ 101,it is.
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Though it being used constantly in AI-related topics from ~2024 onwards is very much a function of LLM output, I would argue.
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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.

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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.
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