Is a Happy Life Synonomous with a Good Life?

This video seems to be the perfect example of The Experience Machine, and after watching it I question why I ever said "I don't think I would plug in" in class. The man enters into a beautiful house with beautiful women in an exotic location and then proceeds to party and spend time with friends. The happiness he experiences seems to be fulfilling and living an incredibly happy life. According to Hedonism, it is my moral responsibility to immediately put that helmet on because it would bring me happiness. However, Desire Satisfaction Theory would not agree because my greatest desire is not to be happy - it is to live a good life. But are a happy life and a good life synonymous? I do not believe so. To put on the helmet and experience joy, I would have to give up Kazez's list of "necessities".

Kazez lists happiness as the first necessity. She claims that happiness is always a good thing because it generally accompanies good and is consistent with one's life's current trajectory - an increase in happiness usually causes an increase in well-being. So according to Kazez, the Experience Machine really is a good thing, bringing us the undeniable goodness of happiness. But this happiness is gained at the expense of other necessities. Autonomy, self-expression, and morality all come as a byproduct of unhappiness, or from learning experiences, and the Experience Machine would render these factors obsolete.