It also relies on the fact that you can simulate the Basilisk well enough to know that it'll definitely hurt you (or the simulated you), such that your observation of its (conditional) decision to hurt you affects your actions.
However, we're not good enough at simulating the Basilisk; if it would decide to do something else, we wouldn't know, so it has no reason to waste resources on torturing us, so we have no reason to believe the threat credible, so nobody will make the Basilisk in the first place.
However, we're not good enough at simulating the Basilisk; if it would decide to do something else, we wouldn't know, so it has no reason to waste resources on torturing us, so we have no reason to believe the threat credible, so nobody will make the Basilisk in the first place.