I think I agree 100% with Lee Crocker. The "problem" is not disambiguation, which is a problem requiring human cognition, but "typing inconvenience".
lcrocker@nupedia.com wrote:
There are already great disambiguating pages like "Java", and we should allow the software to do those automatically because we want human judgment and creativity to apply to making them.
I am almost certain that Lee meant to write: "...we should NOT allow the software to do those automatically"
--Jimbo