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Humans have been trained by the evolution to spot red fruit on green background. This way red is "loud" and green is "quiet". It makes perfect sense then to announce free taxies in a loud voice then.


But you can turn this around if you consider "loud" = "ERROR; DANGER; STOP (found fruit?); NO" and "quiet" = "yes; safe; good; continue (no fruit; keep looking?)".




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