Public beta
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An experiment that tries to answer your question using only the published writings of the scholar you choose. It shows you his actual words, and tells you when it has nothing to give you.
Two questions a day — Everyone gets two questions a day. Each answer costs real money to produce, and this keeps the beta alive for everybody.
Both show the same thing. Only the order changes.
The books are the more reliable source. A book sets out a ruling in full, while a published question and answer replies to one person’s shortened question and carries less of the context around it. Switch this off to be answered from the books alone — and to be told nothing rather than given the shorter form. Where an answer does come from a published question and answer, it is marked as one.
This is not an AI chatbot. It will not chat with you, and it has no opinion of its own. Your question is put to the published works of the scholar you choose, and the reply is built only from his own words, quoted and cited. Where his works do not answer, it says so instead of guessing.
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How this works, in short
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It searches only what the scholar has actually published, in every language his office publishes in.
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It shows you his words exactly as printed. The summary above them is written by a machine and every sentence in it is checked against the text it points to.
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When the published writings do not cover your question, it says so and sends you to the office. It does not guess.
How this works, in full — what happens to your question, what is kept, and how often it answers