Not sure how many very mentally impaired people you’ve spent time with. Chimpanzees are not the same as mentally impaired humans. At all.
And as Gwern said, the claim that chimpanzees can make a good life for themselves in their societies despite their lack of intelligence has huge asterisk marks at best, and at worst isn’t actually true:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DfrSZaf3JC8vJdbZL/?commentId=rNnWduiufEmKFACL4
Not sure how many very mentally impaired people you’ve spent time with. Chimpanzees are not the same as mentally impaired humans. At all.
And as Gwern said, the claim that chimpanzees can make a good life for themselves in their societies despite their lack of intelligence has huge asterisk marks at best, and at worst isn’t actually true:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DfrSZaf3JC8vJdbZL/?commentId=rNnWduiufEmKFACL4