[stracer]

> time dilation to make it go fast (from our frame of reference)

The only way to do that is that we move to a place from which the computer processes appear accelerated, e.g. into a strong gravity well. That isn't very useful, because we do not have such a well nearby, as only very dense hypothetical objects can provide it (e.g. black holes), and it would not be compatible with life to move there.

[pennomi]

Doesn’t have to be compatible with life, just compatible with computing.

[Tuna-Fish]

You misunderstand. The problem with using time dilation is that you can only make the clock go slower, not faster. If you wanted to exploit time dilation to get a computer result faster (in subjective time), you don't send the computer to an exotic locale, you go there yourself, while you leave the computer to do work in normal space.

[AnthonyMouse]

TIL that time dilation can only really be used to make something go slower than normal space, not faster.

Sci-fi authors owe some apologies. I'm looking at you, Star Trek.

[xenadu02]

Time dilation means the object in the gravity well is experiencing time at a slower rate than us humans outside. That is the opposite condition we want: us slow, computer fast.