The title is alluding to an old article called „The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences“ by physicist Eugene Wigner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...

And "considered harmful" was popularized by the Dijkstra’s article "GOTO Statement Considered Harmful".

Most people recognize the reference, it's a very overused reference, hence PCs complaint.

I think at this point everyone knows that.

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1053/

I think at this point everyone's seen this comic.

I’d like to add the phrase “solved problem”.

* is all you need

Another one that is starting to get on my nerves (though not really in the same category as the above) is "first world problem". Person A states they have some kind of problem and person B says "tisk, tisk, first world problems" in order to attenuate whatever problem person A has. If person B is currently living in the 3rd world under 3rd world conditions, fine, otherwise stop cheaply leveraging the poor in order to win arguments.

Each representing failures of prose to appropriately characterize multi-dimensional performance into simplistic concepts of good and evil.

The unreasonable effectiveness of considered harmful essays is all you need

What we talk about when we talk about…