One of the problems is that the basilisk is very weird, but the prerequisites - which are mostly straight out of the Sequences - are also individually weird. So explaining the basilisk to people who haven't read the Sequences through a few times and haven't been reading LessWrong for years is ... a bit of work.
Presumably, you don't believe the basilisk would work.
If you don't believe the basilisk would work, then it really doesn't matter all that much that people don't understand the prerequisites. After all, even understanding the prerequisites won't change their opinion of whether the basilisk is correct. (I suppose that understanding the sequences may change the degree of incorrectness--going from crazy and illogical to just normally illogical--but I've yet to see anyone argue this.)
WARNING: Memetic hazard.
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/07/roko_s_basilisk_the_most_terrifying_thought_experiment_of_all_time.html?wpisrc=obnetwork
Is there anything we should do?