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by Tuna-Fish 695 days ago
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.
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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.