# Affordance Allocation **Domain:** Machine Governance / Interfaces / Identity **Doc Type:** Concept Node **Maturity:** Developing **Concept Hub:** [[wiki/Eligibility Regime|Eligibility Regime]] **Aliases:** personalized affordance allocation; trust-tiered interfaces ## Definition **Affordance allocation is the final stage of the machine-governance loop, in which a user's resolved identity, scores and policy state determine which features, information, prices and appeals the interface renders for that user.** [[articles/The New Dictionary of the Machine Regime|The New Dictionary of the Machine Regime]] places it after telemetry collection, identity resolution, inference and scoring, and policy routing, and observes that features withheld from a low-trust user are often simply never rendered, so the user has nothing to notice ([[wiki/Invisible Mediation|Invisible Mediation]]). ## Relationships - **Concepts:** [[wiki/Affordances|Affordances]] · [[wiki/Affordance Engineering|Affordance Engineering]] · [[wiki/Eligibility Regime|Eligibility Regime]] · [[wiki/Invisible Mediation|Invisible Mediation]] · [[wiki/Surveillance Pricing|Surveillance Pricing]] · [[wiki/Administrative Caste Assignment|Administrative Caste Assignment]] · [[wiki/Lexical Omission|Lexical Omission]] (the unrendered feature as the machine regime's omitted word). - **Source article:** [[articles/The New Dictionary of the Machine Regime|The New Dictionary of the Machine Regime]]; **technical backbone:** [[research/inbox/Machine Governance of Personalized Reality|Machine Governance of Personalized Reality]] · [[research/inbox/Machine Affordances Regime Research|Machine Affordances Regime Research]]. ## Sources / Provenance - Bryant McGill, [[articles/The New Dictionary of the Machine Regime|The New Dictionary of the Machine Regime]] (April 20, 2026; updated September 22, 2026).