Be specific about what you are asking, please. What does the "what if" mean here? Whether these thing should be considered good? Whether such things should be considered "wireheading"? Whether we want an AI to do such things? What?

I'm trying to make you think a little deeper about your distinction between wireheading and non-wireheading. The point is that your choice of the dividing line is entirely arbitrary (and most people don't agree where to put dividing line). I don't know where you put the dividing line, and frankly I don't care; i just want you to realize that you're drawing arbitrary line on the beach, to the left of it is the land, to the right is the ocean. edit: That's how maps work, not how territory works, btw.

This claim doesn't seem to make much sense to me. I've already been made non-objectionably happy by people more intelligent than me from time to time. My parents, when I was child. Good writers and funny entertainers, as an adult. How does it become authomatically "really objectionable" if it's "something more intelligent than human" as opposed to "something more intelligent than you, personally?"

I'd say, they had a goal to achieve something other than happiness , and the happiness was incidental.