Mqrius comments on Outside the Laboratory - Less Wrong
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Ah, but that's not what it means to run until significance -- in my interpretation in any case. A significant result would mean that you run until you have either p < 0.005 that your hypothesis is correct, or p < 0.005 that it's incorrect. Doing the experiment in this way would actually validate it for "proof" in conventional Science.
Since he mentions "running until you're bored", his interpretation may be closer to yours though.